Harriet Beecher Stowe was invited to the White House in 1862 where she was greeted by President Abraham Lincoln who is claimed to have said, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
Essential Facts
Authored Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that offered a glimpse in the life of enslaved African-Americans and greatly contributed to the debate against slavery in America
Participated in the Underground Railroad by secretly assisting African-Americans escaping slavery
Wrote many newspaper articles against slavery as an active abolitionist
