This is what President Abraham Lincoln said to Harriet Beecher Stowe when he met her in 1862. Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. It was the greatest selling book of its time, and was based on ...

The daughter of a strict Calvinist minister, Harriet Beecher later married a professor who encouraged her to write the book after they moved to Maine. Abraham Lincoln allegedly called her "the ...

5. Harriet Beecher Stowe pressured Abraham Lincoln on emancipation. Though Stowe had criticized what she saw as his slowness in emancipation and willingness to seek compromise to prevent southern ...

Meet Abraham Lincoln ... of slavery during that era didn’t come from the pen of Lincoln. It came from the pen of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister who joined ...

Cathi Belcher, the docent of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House ... In November, the tea’s theme focuses on Thanksgiving and Stowe’s meeting with President Lincoln. In December, the event will be ...