Biographical summary Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe in 1852, made her the best-known American writer of the 19th century. She was a housewife with six children, who passionately opposed slavery. With the advice of her sister-in-law she decided to write this novel.Harriet or nicknamed "Hattie" Beecher was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the sixth of eleven children and was born into a family of powerful and demanding individuals. With her mother, Roxanna Foote Beecher, having died when she was just 4 years old, Harriet had only one father figure to look up to growing up. His father, Lyman Beecer, was a prominent Congregationalist minister who preached anti-slavery sermons. He remarried a beautiful woman named Harriet Porter, who gave their family three more children. Her eldest daughter, Catherine, opened the Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut to provide young women with a better education. Isabella, the youngest daughter, founded the NWSA (National Woman's Suffrage Association) together with Susan B. Anthony and Cady Stanton in 1869. All seven brothers, James, Thomas, Henry Ward, Edward, William Henry, Charles and George grew up until they all become ministers. Harriet, along with the rest of her family, had a great impact on the belief in equality at a time when slavery divided our country. In October 1832, when Stowe was 21, he moved with his family to Cincinnati. Harriet lived here for 18 years, just across the Ohio River from slave country Kentucky, where she was exposed to the institution of slavery. He met many freed and runaway slaves while living here, as well as befriending people who participated in the clandestine doubling......middle of paper......being the idea that humans are completely free from racial and moral point of view. Works CitedENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD BIOGRAPHY: 20TH CENTURY SUPPLEMENT. PALATINE, ILL.: JACK HERATY & ASSOC., 1987. Print. Langston Hughes, introduction to Uncle Tom's Cabin in Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Elizabeth Ammons, GK Hall, 1980, pp. 102-4. Stowe, Harriet Faggio. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Humble; The Courtship of the Minister; People of the Old City. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1982. Print. "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Novels for students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski and Deborah A.Stanley. vol. 6. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 297-317. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Network. October 22, 2013. Shmoop editorial team. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., November 11, 2008. Web. November 21. 2013.