Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811. She was the daughter of the famous Congregationalist minister Lymann Beecher. Harriet lived in Litchfield until 1832, when she went to teach at her sister’s school in Cincinnati. Here she worked for four years, all the while contributing her original sketches and stories to local magazines and journals. In 1836, the year she left her teaching career, Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a clergyman and seminary professor. In 1843, she published her first novel, The Mayflower, with the encouragement of her husband. Together they lived near a slave-holding community for nearly 18 years. Here Harriet learned about slavery and life in the south. Very often she met with and talked to fugitive slaves who told her of their experiences and the cruelty of slavery. Due to the compassion she felt for these slaves whom she lived near, she became

After becoming famous, Harriet Beecher Stowe went to the newspaper the Independent, and emerged as the first woman columnist of America. Her job was to write a weekly column on topics of her choice on the first page of the paper. She also began working on The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which contained true testimonies and documents against slavery. She wrote this after many people claimed that her novel was biased and did not contain any sufficient proof of what she wrote about. After that, Harriet went on tours to promote her books and traveled to get away from everything once in a while. She continued writing other works of fiction until she died on July 1, 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut, where she spent the last years of her life.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was a little woman who accomplished an amazing feat, which no one, including herself, believed she could do. She risked everything she had to let others know the complete truth about slavery. She made a name for herself in history and is still remembered today as a remarkable woman. Her memory will continue to live on in her famous controversial novel.

The inspiration for Harriet’s novel was a vision that just came to her one day of an old, black slave being beaten to death by his cruel owner. After her experience she spent many hours writing the scene she had just envisioned. She read this moving scene to her children, who cried and asked questions about what happened before and after to which Harriet had no answer. She thought about writing more, but belie

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