When Abraham Lincoln first met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he said, "So you’re the little lady whose book started the Civil War." Many historians today believe that her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was one of the deciding factors to the start of the Civil War. In 1852 when her book was first published, the nation was already divided over the issue of slavery. Her book opened the eyes of many Northerners to the horrors of slavery.

There were many factors that influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life and writing.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe’s role in the Civil War and how she affected American History.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe’s family and how they influenced her.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe’s personal life and her life before the war as an abolitionist.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its effect on the Civil War.

From Our Album of Authors, by Frank
McAlpine (Eliot and Beezley, 1885).

Links to other Harriet Beecher Stowe sites.
http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Stowe.html
http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/dms/projects/women/qstwe.html
http://www.ctforum.org/cwnf/beecher.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/StoweHB.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/people/mmbt/women/mcalpine/our-stowe.html