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 turmoil. At the height of racial tension in nineteenth century America, Stowe revealed ... ...

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... extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger." This quote is an example of boy whose affections for his mother were forever destroyed because of the broken bond of mother and son at an early age. Harriet Beecher Stowe was ... ...

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