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American · 1811-1896 · 21 quotes
American · 1811–1896
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was the American novelist whose Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, sold three hundred thousand copies in its first year, inflamed opinion on both sides of the slavery debate, and — according to legend — prompted Lincoln to greet her as the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811, the daughter of Lyman Beecher and sister of Henry Ward Beecher, she had watched escaped slaves being sheltered in her father's house and drawn her own conclusions. Her novel was sentimental, moralistic, and relentless, and it changed minds. She wrote thirty more books and lived to eighty-five. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone: a writer who knew that the cost of silence was real.
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