Works Cited chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/searchlm.php. http://www.lostmuseum.cuny, 2006. Web. 7 Dec. 2012. <http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/searchlm.php?function=find&exhibit=uncletom&bro wse=uncletom>.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the most famous american novel that was based on the nineteenth century. Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies it's first year in 1852. Uncle Tom's Cabin is about a runaway slave's family and friends.The book was so famous that people started to performing it on stage.It changed slavery and replaced the anti-abolitionist movement. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/. Stephen Railton & the University of Virginia, 2009. Web. 7 Dec. 2012. <http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/>. " So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started the great war." Ten years after the book was published these words came out of Abraham Lincoln's mouth during an interview with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Readers are aware of what slavery involves and how bad it is. The abolitionist movement caused the Civil War. Stowe actually was exposed to runaway slaves and had helped them. http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org. Copyright Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, 2011. Web. 7 Dec. 2012. <http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org>. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Cincinnati and her mother died 5 years afterward.Harriet went against slavery during political debates.Then Harriet gets married, has seven kids and starts working on Uncle Tom's Cabin. She helps the slaves' abolition movement. Harriet suffers through many deaths including her own children in her last 20 years of her life.After everything she has done and gone through, Harriet dies on July 1,1896.

www.Harrietbeecherstowecenter.org. Copyright Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, n.d. Web. 7 Dec. 2012. <http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/>. Uncle Tom's Cabin changed how slavery was viewed.This book demanded freedom and equality. The civil war started with the abolition movement which began with Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe (The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin) lived in Cincinnati. Cincinnati exposed her to slavery. One of her most famous quotes was "The enslaving of the African race is a clear violation of the great law which commands us to love our neighbors as well as ourselves". She learned that the discussion of slavery could divide an entire community. Harriet hid runaway slaves and and wrote a book about how slavery is an accursed thing (Uncle Tom's Cabin). www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org. Copyright Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, 2011. Web. 7 Dec. 2012. <http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/>. Harriet Beecher Stowe was the seventh child born into her family. She went to school at Hartford female academy. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the most famous book that showed slavery to the world. Harriet Beecher Stowe died July 1,1896 at her school.Harriet wrote her best-selling book in 1850.