Harriet Beecher

Stowe
Almanza Bocanegra Ruth Pamela
Vereau Benites NickyDaniel
 Biography
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in June 14th, in 1811

She was the 7th child of famed

Congregational minister Lyman
Beecher and Roxana Foote Beecher.

Her siblings include elder sister

Catherine and Henry Ward
Beecher, the famous preacher and
reformer.
 In in 1824, she attended Catherine Beecher’s Hartford
Female Seminary.
Stowe became a teacher, working from 1829 to 1832 at the
Hartford Female Seminary.
In 1832, when Stowe’s father accepted the position of
president of the Lane Theological Seminary, she met some of
the great minds and reformers of the day, including noted
abolitionists
She died July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut)
 Literary works
Uncle’s Tom
Cabin (1850) Palmetto
leaves (1873)
Is a memoir and travel
guide written by Harriet
Beecher Stowe about her
winters in the town of
Mandarin, Florida.
 The Poem
Minister’s
Wooing (1859)
"Lines. . ."
This novel explores New
England history, In the fair garden of celestial Peace
highlights the issue of Walketh a Gardener in meekness
slavery, and critiques the clad;
Calvinist theology in Fair are the flowers that wreathe
which Stowe was raised. his dewy locks,
And his mysterious eyes are sweet
and sad.
Uncle’s Tom
cabin
(1850)
Uncle Tom's Cabin began in serial form, made up of several loosely linked stories in
creating the novel.
The opening chapters focus on the main character, Uncle Tom, and are set at the Shelby
farm in Kentucky.
As the novel opens Mr. Shelby is negotiating with Haley, a slave trader. Shelby is in debt
and must sell some of his slaves.
Haley wants to buy Tom, Eliza and Eliza's young son, Harry. Shelby won't consider letting
Eliza go. However, he considers selling Tom and Harry.
Eliza's husband, George Harris, has a different master, one whose cruelty he can no
longer tolerate. He tells Eliza he runs away to Canada and will send for her and Harry .
As the enslaved people join together to rejoice with Tom, Mr. Shelby tells his wife he has bought Tom
and Harry and she is mortified. Eliza hides in a closet and overhears Shelby's words. She returns to her
room, bundles Harry up, and hurries to Uncle Tom's cabin to tell him he has been sold, too.
Tom refuses to flee, they promise they will try to alert George to her plans.
By the next morning, when Haley comes to claim his property, Eliza and Harry have fled.
Eliza and Harry make a grueling trip to the Ohio River. With Haley hot on her heels, Eliza leaps across
the river ice, holding Harry in her arms, to reach the safe shores of Ohio.
Haley refuses to give up pursuing Eliza and Harry; he hires Tom Loker, an especially rough slave
tracker, to catch them. Haley returns to the Shelby farm to secure Tom and begin their trip "down
river," where Tom will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Haley buys and sells slaves along the
way. Tom watches one woman jump off the boat to her death when Haley sells her child.
Loker and his partner, Marks, track Eliza and Harry from their "safe house" to another secret location
and then to a Quaker settlement that frequently harbors runaway slaves.
As Eliza and Harry keep moving, George also makes his way north to Canada. At a lodging place he
encounters Mr. Wilson, a kindly former employer who gives him money and promises he will try to
send a message to Eliza and Harry. George also ends up at the Quaker settlement where his wife and
son are hiding; they meet and plan going to Canada together.
The story returns to Tom, who is on a boat to New Orleans with Haley. Tom meets and befriends
Evangeline "Eva" St. Clare, an angelic little white girl. She is returning from Vermont with her wealthy
father, Augustine, and his cousin Ophelia. When Eva falls overboard, Tom rescues her, and Eva makes
her father buy Tom for her so she can "make him happy." In this way Tom ends up living in a beautiful
home with the "job" of entertaining young Eva.
George, Eliza, and Harry still have a harrowing final trip to Canada, which includes a final gun battle
with Loker. The family manages to escape, but Loker is badly wounded.
Back on the Shelby farm, Mrs. Shelby has promised to try to buy Tom back, but she has not sufficient
funds. She gives Tom's wife, Chloe, permission to work as a baker in Louisville to help buy Tom back.
In New Orleans Tom and Eva grow ever closerbut when Eva becomes sick and dies. Not long after, her
father is killed in a bar fight. Tom is once again sold to Simon Legree who is focused only on making
money; he feeds his slaves very little, and beats them regularly.
After Tom was beaten Cassy cures him and also protects Emmeline, a beautiful young girl.
As Cassy teld Tom her heartbreaking life story, they become close. Cassy escaped. Tom refuses to
reveal their whereabouts. Legree orders Tom to be beaten to death. As Tom is about to die George
Shelby arrives to buy him back, but it is too late. George meets Cassy and Emmeline as he boards a
ship home to New Orleans. Eliza's mother and Emmeline is George Harris's sister. In honor of Tom the
Shelbys free Tom's family and the rest of their slaves.
Impact
Harriet Beecher Stowe's impact lies in her
influential novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which
powerfully exposed the horrors of slavery
and motivated public opinion against it,
ultimately contributing to the abolitionist
cause in the United States.
Thank
You!