Harriet Beecher Stowe Essay, Research Paper
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a high
class women, reformer, and writer in the 1800?s. She
wrote many anti-slavery documents that helped reform
society. You may know her as the writer of Uncle Tom?s
Cabin, the best-selling book in the 1800?s about how bad
slavery was. Because of the encouragement if her husband,
Calvin E. Stowe, she became one of the most famous
writers, reformers, and abolitionist women of the 1800?s.
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was born on June 14,
1811, in Linchfeild, Connecticut. Her father, Reverend
Lyman Beecher, raised her in a strong, religious, abolitionist
environment. She was also very well educated. In 1832,
she moved to Cincinnati with her father. There she learned
about slavery that was taking place in the state underneath
her. In 1836, she married Calvin E. Stowe, a collage
professor who encouraged her writing, that was soon to
make her one of the famous women in American history. A
few years later she moved to Maine because her husband
was excepted into a college as a professor. Harriet
Beecher Stowe is well known for her well written
anti-slavery document, Uncle Tom?s Cabin. Uncle Tom?s
Cabin is one of Harriet?s Most potent pieces of writing. It
was also the 1800?s best selling book. She may also be
known for her other, not so famous, anti-slavery
documents known as the following: Dread: the Tale of the
Great Dismissal Swamp, The Minister?s Wooing, The Pearl
of Orr?s Island, and The Oldtown Folks. These books may
not have been her best pieces of anti-slavery writing, but it
still helped influenced many people into going against
slavery and trying to stop it. Harriet Beecher Stowe may be
significant because she wrote Uncle Tom?s Cabin, but she
is significant in other ways. Back during the time of slavery
no one would listen to what an African American would
have to say, let alone an African American slave. It was
very odd in that time to be a rich, high class woman and not
own a slave. But, because of the encouragement of her
husband, and the way she was raised as a child she was
against slavery, and she tried to reform society. By her
writing ability and knowledge of slavery she wrote
anti-slavery documents that almost every northerner read.
The pieces of work influenced many people. A lot of
people would try to stop slavery, just as Harriet would. If
Harriet Beecher Stowe wouldn?t have written her stories
people probably wouldn?t have been as influenced, and
society today wouldn?t be the same. Harriet Beecher
Stowe was one of the most famous abolitionist woman of
the 1800?s. She was a high-class women who greatly
influenced people in her writing on anti-slavery. She wrote
many other anti-slavery documents that influenced many
people into becoming abolitionist and reformers of society.
Her husband and father were a great influence on her
writing. Harriet Beecher Stowe is well known for her
masterpiece, Uncle Tom?s Cabin which was the best selling
book of the 1800?s.