Harriet Beecher Stowe

Birth: 1811-06-14 , Litchfield

Death: 1896-07-01 , Hartford

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and writer whose novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had a profound impact on the anti-slavery movement in the United States. Her work brought a humanized perspective on slavery, influencing public opinion and the political debate of the time.

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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did His dictation.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements ofthis last convulsion.

My soul an’t yours, Mas’r! You haven’t boughtit,—ye can’t buy it! It’s been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.

[ The character Topsy speaking :] I s’pect I growed.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilitiesdecline.

Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist ofevening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and theswollen current and floundering masses of icepresented a hopeless barrier between her andher pursuer.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American writer and abolitionist who became one of the most important literary figures of the 19th century in the United States. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she was the daughter of prominent Presbyterian minister Lyman Beecher and sister of Henry Ward Beecher. Her most famous novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852), depicted the horrors of slavery in a poignant and emotional way, becoming an international bestseller and a catalyst for the abolitionist movement. The work was credited by Lincoln, according to legend, as the spark that started the American Civil War. Stowe wrote over 30 books, but none achieved the impact of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.