Harriet Beecher Stowe Born: 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States Died: 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States Occupation: writer Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1811, Harriet was the seventh of Lyman Beecher's nine children by his first wife, Roxana. Beecher, a famous evangelical Calvinist minister, was a demanding father who stressed strict adherence to Puritan values in the upbringing of his children. They moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1824 Harriet began to attend the Hartford Female Academy, a school …showed first 75 words of 523 total…

…showed last 75 words of 523 total…object to show that the evils of slavery were the inherent evils of a bad system, and not always the fault of those who had become involved in it and were its actual administrators." He called this lack of personal responsibility racist, and current scholarship is somewhat critical of Stowe's moral views. Despite the criticism, Uncle Tom's Cabin remains a well-read classic, a book which became a standard of the historic struggle to abolish slavery.