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 ... Her name was Mrs. Beecher Stowe. She took me in and fed me, and gave me some clothes and five dollars. She also inspected my back, ...