Harriet beecher stowe

The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

By RufusLindley

  • Birth

    Birth
    "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life." Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life. Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, n.d. Web. 03 Apr. 2015.

  • Moves to Cincinnati

    Moves to Cincinnati
    In 1832, Lyman Beecher was appointed president of Lane Theological Seminary, and he moved his family to Cincinnati. Photo by Greg Hume

  • Growing Interest in Anti-Slavery Movement

    Growing Interest in Anti-Slavery Movement
    Catherine Beecher started a school in Cincinnati, the Western Female Institute, and Harriet became a teacher there. Harriet began writing professionally: first she co-wrote a geography textbook with her sister, Catherine, and then sold several stories.Cincinnati was across the Ohio from Kentucky, a slave state, and Harriet also visited a plantation there and saw slavery for the first time. She also talked with escaped slaves. Her association with anti-slavery activists like Salmon Chase meant th

  • Marries Calvin Ellis Stowe

    Marries Calvin Ellis Stowe

  • Congress Passes Fugitive Slave Law

    Congress Passes Fugitive Slave Law
    On September 18, 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, which made it illegal for anyone to help a fugitive slave, thus allowing slave owners to travel far into the Northern free states to reclaim slaves. In 1851, Stowe began a contract with The National Era, an anti-slavery magazine, for a story that would "paint a word picture of slavery," for Northerners who had never witnessed it first-hand, as a way to galvanize them to action against the institution of slavery.

  • Begins Work on Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Begins Work on Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Originally published as installments in the anti-slavery magazine, The National Era, the pieces were eventually gathered and published in 1852 as “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly,” the first print run was 5,000. Within a year, the book had sold 300,000 copies in America, and over a million in Britain.
    "Harriet Beecher Stowe — Uncle Tom's Cabin." Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Associati
    Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Cover. Digital image. Crisis Magazine, 24 Sept. 2012. Web. 3 Apr. 2015.

  • Civil War Begins

    Civil War Begins

  • Death

    Death
    At the age of 85, Harriet Beecher Stowe dies in her sleep at her home in Hartford, Connecticut. She is buried at the Andover Chapel Cemetery.