Happy 201st Birthday to
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) whose 1852 book
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a catalyst for the anti-slavery movement in the US.
President Lincoln met her in
1862 and supposedly greeted her with
"so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war?"
The
Harriet Beecher Stowe House in the Cincinnati neighborhood of
Walnut Hills was owned by her abolitionist Father and is where she lived from
1833-1836.
The home is now a museum focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Underground Railroad, and African-American history.
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