Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811 and moved to Cincinnati in 1832 when her father, prominent Congregational minister Lyman Beecher, became pastor of the city's Second Presbyterian Church and president of Lane Theological Seminary. She married Calvin E. Stowe in 1836 and bore six of their seven children while living there. Life in Cincinnati gave her firsthand knowledge of the evils of slavery, and, already a published writer, she drew on those experiences and the death of her infant son Charley in 1849 to write Uncle Tom's Cabin. Published in book form in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin made her famous and remains an icon of the American anti-slavery movement. A prolific writer, she wrote a book a year for nearly thirty years. After leaving Cincinnati in 1850, the Stowes lived in Brunswick, Maine, Andover, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut, where she died in 1896.

Cincinnati, Ohio · United States