1. The publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin By Gus and Julia

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe Born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut Enrolled in a seminary run by her sister where she received a traditionally “male” education Married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a slavery critic, in 1836 Was moved by the Fugitive Slave Act to present her objections on paper “So this is the little lady who wrote the book that started this great war.”—Abraham Lincoln

3. Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin First published in installments in an antislavery journal called the National Era Also called “Life Among the Lowly” Met mixed reviews in 1852 published in book form Sold 10,000 copies in its first week, by half way through 1852 it had sold over 1,000,000 copies

4. What role did it play in starting the civil war? Convinced North and South there was no peaceable way around slavery Swayed many Northern people from gradualism to abolitionist. Convinced Southerners it was an attack on the South as a whole.

5. Primary Sources “And now, men and women of America, is this a thing to be trifled with, apologized for, and passed over in silence?”—pg. 437, Uncle Tom’s Cabin “…I don’t know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow.”—pg. 69, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6. Pictures http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/journalism _media_communication/literature_culture/ abolition/post_bellum.php www.americaslibrary.gov

7. Information Uncle Tom’s Cabin—biography by Amanda Claybaugh Danzer, G. A. et. al. (2003) The Americans, McDougall, Littell Appleby et. al. (2003) The American Vision, McGraw-Hill Beecher-Stowe, H. (1852) Uncle Tom’s Cabin