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 Harriet Beecher Stowe House, located at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine, was the rented home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family from 1850 to 1852. During Stowe’s time in Brunswick, she ...

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House, located at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine, was the rented home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family from 1850 to 1852. During Stowe’s time in Brunswick, she ...

Born in Kentucky in 1816, Harriet Bell escaped ... home a hub for Boston’s prominent antislavery advocates: Harriet Beecher Stowe visited in 1853, as did John Brown in 1859, only months before ...