Uncle Tom's Cabin

             Uncle Tom's Cabin is known as an emotionally written book. The Author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, seems like an evangelical Southerner. Even though Stowe does not share the blood back ground of slaves, she still has deep thoughts and ideas of their culture. She was born 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, into a minister's family. When she was four years old, her mother died. It was then that Stowe's sister, Catharine, raised her from there on out. Stowe later received an education in Hartford. After she finished, she became a Teacher at the school.
             When Stowe was 21, her father became president of a theological seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she and Catharine moved to Ohio with him. Later, Catharine set up one of the first colleges for women called Western Female Institute. Stowe began to take her teaching skills there to a new level.
             Her interests broadened as she talked to the people of Ohio. Stowe heard many tales of slaves across the river of Cincinnati. She heard many tales of runaway slaves. It was there that Stowe met and married Calvin Stowe, a minister and one of the professors at the seminary. After they were married, Calvin encouraged Stowe to continue writing. Stowe had begun to win prizes for her writings two years earlier. At the time of their marriage, they were poor but rich in love.
             Stowe lived in Cincinnati collecting data and impressions about Slavery. In 1850, her husband got a job offer in Maine so they decided to move there. The following year, she began writing about a vision she had of a ragged old slave being beaten. She then submitted her works to the National Era, and they agreed to publish it. The story was an immediate success, and in 1852, it was issued as a book known as Uncle Tom's Cabin.
             It was a few years later, that the book became a traveling play.
             Stowe continued writing for the rest of her life, but nothing else she turned in approached the drama of Uncle Tom's C...

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