Harriet Beecher Stowe: Freeing Slaves, Promoting Change The renowned author of the pro-abolishment novel Uncle Tom's Cabin would have turned 200 this month. Host Michel Martin discusses the life ...

Copies of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and John Andrew Jackson's "The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina" are seen in this Aug. 29, 2013 photo taken at the Charleston County ...

Learn how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin sparked national debate and changed how many Americans understood slavery. By Brandon B. Fortune, Chief Curator, National Portrait ...

A Clemson University professor is convinced that Harriet Beecher Stowe, pictured, might not have written 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' if it were not for a fugitive South Carolina slave she harbored for a ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe has one goal: to convince her northern audience that slavery was evil and could no longer be tolerated.Perhaps from our vantage ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. A Clemson University professor is convinced it was a fugitive slave from South Carolina that Harriet Beecher Stowe harbored in her Maine home shortly before writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin ...

He had eluded captors by stowing away on a ship, and then suddenly showed up at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Brunswick, Maine, home seeking shelter and food. This was in December 1850, an especially ...

The Fugitive Slave Act inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to Write Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1832, Harriet Beecher moved to Cincinnati with her father, who assumed the presidency of Lane Theological Seminary.

While in Kentucky, she witnessed slavery up close for the first time. The house now operates as the Harriet Beecher Stowe, Slavery to Freedom Museum. Aired 01/08/2013 | Rating NR.

GUILFORD — For many, Harriet Beecher Stowe — the Connecticut-bred woman behind the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin —represents one of the country’s most famous abolitionists. But Dennis ...

But the months that Harriet Beecher Stowe lived at the address in the city's Walnut Hills neighborhood earned the house its name, its fame and a $4.5 million renovation that began in 2016.