It was an immediate bestseller, selling ten thousand copies in its first week of publication and going on to become the second biggest bestseller of the nineteenth century after the Bible. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, punishing anyone who offered runaway slaves food or shelter – she drew on her anger from this to write UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, which first appeared in an abolitionist newspaper and was then published in book form. She moved to Ohio in 1832 and was introduced to the slavery debates, marrying the professor and staunch abolitionist Calvin Stowe with whom she had seven children. This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811, one of ten children of famous minister Lyman Beecher. Although Evangeline's father finally resolves to free his slaves, his sudden death alters their fates, sending Tom farther downriver to Simon Legree's plantation, and the whips of Legree's overseers. Clare, Tom is purchased by her father and taken to their home in New Orleans. Befriending a white child, Evangeline St. Too loyal to abuse his master's trust, too Christian to rebel, Tom wrenches himself from his family. Aided by the Underground Railroad, Quakers, and others opposed to the Fugitive Slave Act, Eliza, her son, and her husband George run toward Canada.Īs the Harrises flee to freedom, another slave, Uncle Tom, is sent "down the river" for sale. Indeed, Abraham Lincoln greeted Stowe in 1863 as "the little lady who made this big war."Įliza Harris, a slave whose child is to be sold, escapes her beloved home on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and heads North, eluding the hired slave catchers. Published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the abolitionists' message to the public conscience.
Neither before nor after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin has a woman ever so moved America to take action against injustice as Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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