Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, also known as Harriet Beecher Stowe, was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the sixth child of thirteen children. Two of them died as a child. She had seven brothers and three sisters. Her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, was a Presbyterian Minister. Her mother was Roxanna Foote Beecher. She died at the age of forty-one because of tuberculosis when Harriet was five years old.
Following her mother’s death, Harriet was sent to live with her aunt and grandmother at a plantation beside the coast of Long Island Sound, where she learned to read and met black people for the first time. They were not slaves, but instead they were indentured servants. They still were not treated …show more content…
Harriet’s book became a best seller and it became popular in the United States and around the world. People started to understand how horrible slavery was and joined the abolitionist movement after reading the book; they wanted slavery outlawed throughout the United States.
In 1853, several southerners claimed that Uncle Tom's Cabin was an effort of fiction meant to further abolition. To answer this, Harriet wrote, “A key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” compilation all of the sources she used to create the book. That book was meant to prove the southerners incorrect and further shock the government into ending slavery.
In 1853 Harriet was invited to speak about the novel in Great Britain.
In 1856, Harriet published her second novel, “Dred, A tale of the Great Dismal Swamp,” which tells a story of an escaped slave. The book depicted the worsening of a society resting on a slave basis.
When she was writing, she did it mainly because she was in a time of financial need because she was having trouble supporting her
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, also known as Harriet Beecher Stowe, was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the sixth child of thirteen children. Two of them died as a child. She had seven brothers and three sisters. Her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, was a Presbyterian Minister. Her mother was Roxanna Foote Beecher. She died at the age of forty-one because of tuberculosis when Harriet was five years old.
Following her mother’s death, Harriet was sent to live with her aunt and grandmother at a plantation beside the coast of Long Island Sound, where she learned to read and met black people for the first time. They were not slaves, but instead they were indentured servants. They still were not treated …show more content…
Harriet’s book became a best seller and it became popular in the United States and around the world. People started to understand how horrible slavery was and joined the abolitionist movement after reading the book; they wanted slavery outlawed throughout the United States.
In 1853, several southerners claimed that Uncle Tom's Cabin was an effort of fiction meant to further abolition. To answer this, Harriet wrote, “A key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” compilation all of the sources she used to create the book. That book was meant to prove the southerners incorrect and further shock the government into ending slavery.
In 1853 Harriet was invited to speak about the novel in Great Britain.
In 1856, Harriet published her second novel, “Dred, A tale of the Great Dismal Swamp,” which tells a story of an escaped slave. The book depicted the worsening of a society resting on a slave basis.
When she was writing, she did it mainly because she was in a time of financial need because she was having trouble supporting her