Status
Checked out
Due Apr 18, 2024
Local notes
921 STO
Collection
Genres
Publication
Grosset & Dunlap (2015), Edition: Dgs, 105 pages. $5.99 (Sept 2017).
Description
Examines the life of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
105 p.; 5.25 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member NickiSlater
Did Harriet Beecher Stowe start the Civil War? Abraham Lincoln may have greeted her with a statement to that effect! In 1851, Harriet was horrified by slavery and set out to write a few episodes of a story detailing the cruelty of slavery. It ended up being 40 chapters and turned into the
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controversial novel UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. The book was not well received by the public because it shed such a spotlight on the horrors against humankind that slavery is. It was dangerous to even own the book in the South. This is an interesting illustrated biography from the extensive WHO IS...?/WHO WAS...? biography series with almost 100 names available. Show Less
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Lexile
890L
Pages
105