This novel exposed the horrific lives of the slaves, and the awful hardships that they had to endure everyday. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was also said to have caused the civil war. However,this novel was not Harriet Beecher Stowe’s only accomplishment. According the the reading, Women writers in the American Renaissance, “Mary Griffith published Our Neighborhood; or, Letters on Horticulture and Natural Phenomena (1831), and several other texts in philosophy and science appeared between then and 1855, including Mary Austin Holley’s Texas: Observations, Historical, Geographical and Descriptive (1833); Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catharine Beecher’s Primary Geography for Children (1833). This quote depicts the impact that Harriet Beecher Stowe had on not only the abolitionism movement, but on education. In the same reading, “Progressive women writer-educators such as Emma Willard incorporated the new interest in science and philosophy into their textbooks and school curricula” This quote …show more content…
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s humanist values also proved that women can be valuable in a society and are capable of things other than supporting a man. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writing led to greater things that would inevitably change the course of