... main issue that Buchanan had to deal with throughout his presidency was slavery. Authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Hinton R. Helper published books that awakened New England abolitionists. The Lincoln-Douglas debates showed the ethical prejudice of slavery and were some of the first "shots" fired in the Civil War. Chief Justice Taney's ruling in the Dred Scott case inflamed ... Stowe had never seen slavery first hand. Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South was banned in the South and widely accepted by the North. The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephe...

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... is a significant piece of literature because it helped in abolishing slavery in the United States. Uncle Tom's Cabin stirred many emotions and raised much controversy. Upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln said, "So you"re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!". Uncle Tom's Cabin had stirred the conscience of the nation and the world, fueling ... ...

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So you're the lady whose book started this great war. Abraham Lincoln said this to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting her in 1862. This quote shows the great influence the novel had on the minds of its readers and on a nation in ... ...

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... South. It obviously also brought an enormous following of antislavery sentiment and basically made it inevitable for the coming of the Civil War. On Stowe's visit to the White House, Abraham Lincoln greeted her as "the little lady who wrote the book that made this big war." It is said that he would not have been elected president had it not been ... ...

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... significance of her anti-slavery writing has tended to draw the attention away from her other work. Stowe's first novel created such a controversy that when she was introduced to President Abraham Lincoln he was said to have greeted her with the words, "So you are the little women who wrote the book that started this great war!" Uncle Tom's Cabin was one ... ...

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