While in Kentucky, she witnessed slavery up close for the first time. The house now operates as the Harriet Beecher Stowe, Slavery to Freedom Museum.

The daughter of a strict Calvinist minister, Harriet Beecher later married a professor who encouraged her to write the book after they moved to Maine. Abraham Lincoln allegedly called her "the ...

The Stowe family moved to Brunswick in 1850 for Harriet’s husband, Calvin, to accept a professorship of Natural and ... and set me on my way. Her name was Mrs. Beecher Stowe. She took me in and fed me ...