Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an influential American author and abolitionist, celebrated for her novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852), a work which galvanized anti-slavery sentiment in the United States and abroad. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, to Lyman Beecher, a prominent Congregationalist minister, and Roxana Foote, Stowe was the seventh of thirteen children. The Beecher family was at t...