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Information and Articles About Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist, and one of the prominent women of the civil war Harriet Beecher Stowe Facts Born June 14, 1811 Litchfield, Connecticut Died July 1, 1896 (aged 85) Hartford, Connecticut Accomplishments Teacher Author of numerous magazine articles, essays, and stories Author of over 30 novels, including Uncle Toms Cabin [...]

Harriet Stowe gives birth to daughter Georgiana May. Her story collection The Mayflower is published. During an anti-slavery sermon preached by the Rev. George E. Adams, Stowe envisions the plot of a novel depicting the cruelty of slavery. She rushes home after church and scribbles down all that she has pictured.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist, most famous for authoring Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Harriet was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut. She had four siblings, including her brother, the famous abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher.

The seventh child of the famous Beecher clan, Harriet Beecher Stowe grew up in the intellectually and religiously intense household of her father, the Rev. Lyman Beecher, and her siblings, including her older sister Catharine Beecher . Each of her seven brothers joined the ministry.

Kids learn about the biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, woman who wrote about the horrors of slavery before the Civil War.