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Date of Birth
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born June 11, 1811. She was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. -
School and teaching
Harriet attended to Catherine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary, which gave her courses and academies. She wrote visible essays and later became a teacher from 1829-1832. She later left and moved the Cincinnati, OH with her father. -
Publishing first book
Stowe published Primary Geography in 1833. Her book talks about various cultures and views. She had met great reformers and later on wrote her book. -
Harriet's middle life
Harriet later had a child with Calvin. He had supported Harriet's writing and so she wrote several articles and published many books. They both had gone through many problems while they were together but got through it. -
Harriet marries Calvin Ellie Stowe
Harriet had met friends in an association called the Semi- Colon Club. She met a seminary teacher named Calvin Ellie Stowe and had created a friendship with him. They later married in 1863 and moved into a small cottage near Brunswick, Maine. -
Turning point
In 1849, Harriet's eighteen month year old son dies in a cholera epidemic that took 3,000 lives from where she lived. Harriet explained that this was an example of what it was like for slaved mothers to loose their children from being sold. When this happened, she began to write her famous book Uncle Tom's Cabin. -
Harriet publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
In 1852, Harriet published her book Uncle Tom's Cabin and it received 300,000 copies bought in the North itself. The book talked about the impact of slavery and had caught the nation's attention. The story talks about what life is like as a slave and the character is later beaten to death. -
People react to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Up in the North, readers started to understand the horrors of slavery and became more aware of the situation. Down in the South, slave owners worked much harder on defending slavery. This caused the increase of differences between the North and the South. The book had became spread all around the nation for everyone to read. -
Trying to end slavery
Stowe had tried to use her fame to press to end slavery. She was becoming a speaker by touring nationally and speaking about her book. She gave of what she had earned to help the antislavery cause. Stowe had hoped to defeat the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Stowe meets Lincoln
When Harriet wrote her book Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lincoln believed that Stowe caused the war. Lincoln had a meeting with her ten years after the book was published and his exact words to her were, "So you're the little woman that wrote the book that made this great war?". Stowe's book brought great attention to the whole nation and even the president. -
Coming to the end
In 1873, Harriet moved the Hartford, Connecticut. She continued her life with her family and helped to create Hartford University. She spent the rest of her life there until she past. -
Harriet's Death
Harriet died in Hartford, Connecticut on July 1,1896.
