AGC Did You Know

From 1832 to the early 1850's Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the best-selling book
of its time, Uncle Tom's Cabin, lived in Cincinnati. The much heralded, fictionalized
account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of
slaves to escape and travel, on the Underground Railroad, to freedom in the northern
states or Canada was based on Stowe’s experiences in Cincinnati.

Uncle Tom's Cabin has been published in over 75 languages and is still an important
text used in schools all over the world. Written at a time when women did not vote,
have legal rights, or even speak in public meetings, Uncle Tom's Cabin became an
important part of the social fabric and thought that eventually caused the Civil War
to break out and the southern slaves to be emancipated by President Abraham
Lincoln, effective in 1863.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House, her home while in Cincinnati, is operated as an
historical and cultural site.

Not only an author, Stowe was also an activist and a philanthropist. Born June 14,
1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, she died July 1, 1896, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Source (data):       http://www.biography.com           http://stowehousecincy.org/
Source (photo):     http://stowehousecincy.org/

AGC Did You Know?

Posted August 2013