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| Civilian |
| 1811-1896 |
| Connecticut
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| Author |
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Her popular novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin,
published a decade before the Civil War, helped change
the way many Americans felt about slavery, and is forever
linked to the abolitionist "fever." 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 little lady
who made this big war." |
