Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfeild, Connecticut, to Roxana and Lyman Beecher. She wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, children's books, and adult novels. She is most famous for her first adult novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel published in 1852. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an active abolitionist and spoke out against slavery in both America and Europe. In 1836 she married a widower named Calvin Stowe and had seven children. She died on July 1, 1896 at the age of 85 in Hartford, Connecticut.