She imagined that she was engaged in the original composition, and for several hours every day she industriously used pen and paper, inscribing passages of the book almost exactly word for word. Harriet was also influenced by the Lane Debates on Slavery. Following the death of her husband, Calvin Stowe, in 1886, Harriet started rapidly to decline in health. in, liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA), University of Florida's George A. 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It is recorded that Mr. Key took her to see a slave auction, as they were frequently held in Maysville. [11] However, what more likely allowed her to empathize with slaves was the loss of her eighteen-month-old son, Samuel Charles Stowe. She serves as the Secretary of the Board of Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House. [20], According to Daniel R. Lincoln, the goal of the book was to educate Northerners on the realistic horrors of the things that were happening in the South. Harriet Beecher-Stowe was a social activist and author best known for her anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811. Riots took place again in 1836 and 1841, driven also by native-born anti-abolitionists. [citation needed], After the start of the Civil War, Stowe traveled to the capital, Washington, D.C., where she met President Abraham Lincoln on November 25, 1862. 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