Harriet Beecher Stowe’s personal life and her life before the war as an abolitionist.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811. As a child, she was known as absent-minded, moody, and odd, but she was always a good student. She was the sixth of eight children. Harriet Beecher Stowe had seven children but only three outlived her. When her own children died in infancy, Harriet Beecher Stowe said that she then realized what it must have felt like for the slave mothers to lose their children. She was engaged to Professor Calvin Stowe in 1835 and they were married in January of 1836. In her early life as an abolitionist, she lived in Cincinnati where she became acquainted with many other abolitionists and run-away slaves. She helped free many slaves through the Underground Railroad.
The passing of the Fugitive Slave Law horrified Harriet Beecher Stowe and it led her to writing, A Key To Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Dred, which was based on Nat Turner’s Rebellion. Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of the following books: Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Dred: A tale of the Dismal Swamp, The Minister’s Wooing, Agnes of Surrents, The Pearl of Orrs Island, Old Town Folks, and many others.