Ideal Meeting of an American History Reformer
Harriet Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811. In her area, she had never directly witnessed the cruelty of slavery, but the word of such horror was enough to move her deeply from a young age. Her family had a legacy of shaping their world. All ten Beecher children made their mark with accomplishments such as becoming ministers, pushing for women’s education and founding the National Women’s Suffrage Association. Being the younger often, Harriet Beecher knew she wanted to change the world and that her purpose in life was to write. She started school at one of the first academies to hold high academic standards, Sarah Pierce’s academy; this school is where she found her love of writing. …show more content…
Four years later, she married that man, Calvin Stowe, a theology professor. After having seven children, she faced one of her biggest heartbreaks since her mother’s early death when her one-year-old son died of cholera. The immense pain left was what Stowe later referenced as an inspiration for her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Following the Civil war, she purchased a winter home in Mandarin, Florida. While Stowe was an advocate for abolition, she understands that it would take more than a law to prevent inequality. Her brother opened a school to teach emancipated slaves and improve their education; Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband were asked to join. Stowe’s love of Mandarin, Florida was express in her story Palmetto Leaves, written in 1873. On the other hand, it was her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that sent her into celebrity and into our history books. Stowe promised The National Era, an abolitionist newspaper a story that would “paint a word picture of slavery.” While the expectation was that she would simply write 3 installments, she eventually published over 40. In the years following the book became an immediate bestseller. It sold over 300,000 copies in the United States in the first year. It became the second best selling novel of the 19th Century, only passed by the Bible. Today it is still studied in schools to inform students of the time of abolition; although, its lasting
Harriet Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811. In her area, she had never directly witnessed the cruelty of slavery, but the word of such horror was enough to move her deeply from a young age. Her family had a legacy of shaping their world. All ten Beecher children made their mark with accomplishments such as becoming ministers, pushing for women’s education and founding the National Women’s Suffrage Association. Being the younger often, Harriet Beecher knew she wanted to change the world and that her purpose in life was to write. She started school at one of the first academies to hold high academic standards, Sarah Pierce’s academy; this school is where she found her love of writing. …show more content…
Four years later, she married that man, Calvin Stowe, a theology professor. After having seven children, she faced one of her biggest heartbreaks since her mother’s early death when her one-year-old son died of cholera. The immense pain left was what Stowe later referenced as an inspiration for her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Following the Civil war, she purchased a winter home in Mandarin, Florida. While Stowe was an advocate for abolition, she understands that it would take more than a law to prevent inequality. Her brother opened a school to teach emancipated slaves and improve their education; Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband were asked to join. Stowe’s love of Mandarin, Florida was express in her story Palmetto Leaves, written in 1873. On the other hand, it was her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that sent her into celebrity and into our history books. Stowe promised The National Era, an abolitionist newspaper a story that would “paint a word picture of slavery.” While the expectation was that she would simply write 3 installments, she eventually published over 40. In the years following the book became an immediate bestseller. It sold over 300,000 copies in the United States in the first year. It became the second best selling novel of the 19th Century, only passed by the Bible. Today it is still studied in schools to inform students of the time of abolition; although, its lasting