Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

by Dana Meachen Rau

Paperback, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

813.3

Series

Who Was ...? (Who HQ) (98)

Genres

Fiction

Publication

Penguin Workshop (2015), Edition: Dgs, 112 pages

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.

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

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.

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