Harriet Beecher Stowe
June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896
Author & Abolitionist
Her faith-driven novel ignited the abolitionist movement
Biography
American author and abolitionist best known for 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852), which depicted the harsh realities of slavery and galvanized the abolitionist movement. Daughter of prominent Calvinist preacher Lyman Beecher and sister of Henry Ward Beecher, she came from one of the most influential Christian families in 19th-century America.
Faith & Testimony
Stowe's Christian faith was the engine of her abolitionist passion. She wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as an explicitly Christian argument against slavery, with the Christ-like suffering of Tom as its moral center. She said the book was inspired by a vision during communion. Her father Lyman Beecher was a leading Calvinist theologian, and the entire Beecher family was deeply evangelical.