Historic Humanist Series

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born June 14, 1811. She authored Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most powerful novels in American Literature. It was serialized in an abolitionist paper, the "National Era," and issued as a book in 1852. The success of the book was unprecedented; 500 thousand copies were sold in the United States within five years and it was translated into more than twenty foreign languages. The book energized antislavery sentiment in the North and was a significant factor in precipitating the American Civil War.

Stowe devoted her long life of 85 years to promoting the freedom and equality of all humanity. She died July 1, 1896.

--Flo Wineriter