1889 Biography Harriet Beecher Stowe Author Of Uncle Tom's Cabin Slavery Classic
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1889 BIOGRAPHY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AUTHOR OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN SLAVERY CLASSIC. From 1889, the first edition of Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by her son, Charles Edward Stowe. As Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. The original leather spine replaced with green leather patterned cloth, marbled boards. From 1889, the first edition of Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by her son, Charles Edward Stowe. As Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Sized 9x6 inches, 530 pages, plus a bibliography of books by Stowe, including her first, the monumental first book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sized 9x6 inches. The original leather spine replaced with green leather patterned cloth, marbled boards. Profusely illustrated. ncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War". Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary, was part of the religious Beecher family and an active abolitionist. She wrote the sentimental novel to depict the horrors of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery. The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of the other characters revolve. In the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. The influence attributed to the book was so great that a likely apocryphal story arose of Abraham Lincoln meeting Stowe at the start of the Civil War and declaring, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." The novel remains a "landmark" in protest literature, with later books such as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson owing a large debt to it.
