1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Slavery was one of the subjects that she felt strongly about and she became the first woman to break these boundaries. ... Like all the abolitionists, Stowe was aware of the painful discrepancies between America's Declaration of Independence and its legislation of slavery (Douglas 20). She claims that she longed "to do something, I knew not what: to fight for my country, or to make some declaration on my account. Uncle Tom's Cabin was that declaration" (Douglas 21). ... She replied this, "Slavery was a sin, one that needed a more dramatic response- people could do something abou...
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