Biographical SummaryUncle Toms Cabin, written by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe in 1852, made her the best-known American writer of the 19th century. She was a housewife with six children and passionately opposed slavery. On the advice of her sister-in-law, she decides to write this novel. Harriet or nicknamed “Hattie” Beecher was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the sixth of eleven children and was born into a family of powerful and demanding individuals. With her mother, Roxanna Foote Beecher, passing away when she was just 4 years old, Harriet only had one father figure to look up to growing up. His father, Lyman Beecer, was a prominent Congregationalist minister who preached anti-slavery sermons. He remarried a beautiful woman named Harriet Porter, who bore their family three more children. The eldest daughter, Catherine opened the Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford Connecticut to give young women a better education. Isabella, the youngest daughter, founded the NWSA (National Woman's Suffrage Association) with Susan B. Anthony and Cady Stanton in 1869. The seven brothers, James, Thomas, Henry Ward, Edward, William Henry, Charles and George, all became ministers. Harriet, along with the rest of her family, had a tremendous impact on the belief in equality during the time when slavery divided our country. In October 1832, when Stowe was 21, she moved with her family to Cincinnati. Harriet lived here for 18 years, just across the Ohio River from Kentucky, where she was exposed to the institution of slavery. She met many freed and runaway slaves while living here, and befriended people who participated in the underground life...... middle of paper...... rejecting the idea of ​​humans being completely racially and morally free. Works CitedENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD BIOGRAPHY: 20TH CENTURY SUPPLEMENT. PALATINE, ILL. : JACK HERATY & ASSOC., 1987. Print. Langston Hughes, introduction to Uncle Tom's Cabin in Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Elizabeth Ammons, GK Hall, 1980, pp. 102-4. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Humble; Courting the minister; The people of the old town. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1982. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” print. Novels for students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski and Deborah A. Stanley. Flight. 6. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 297-317. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Internet. October 22, 2013. Shmoop editorial team. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., November 11, 2008. Web. November 21. 2013.