Harriet Beecher Stowe

Object Details

Exhibition Label: Born Litchfield, Connecticut; In 1851, when Harriet Beecher Stowe began writing a story depicting the cruelties of Southern slavery, she did not expect her text to be very long, and her hopes for having any impact on shaping antislavery opinion were modest. But what began as a short story turned into the best-selling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a work that became the most widely read antislavery tract of the pre–Civil War era. While the book galvanized the North’s growing antipathy for slavery, Southerners raged at the alleged distortion of their world, and there is little doubt that the publication played a significant part in widening the breach between the two regions.

c. 1865

Medium: Albumen silver print
Dimensions: Image/Sheet: 8.5 x 5.5 cm (3 3/8 x 2 3/16"); Mount: 10 x 6.3 cm (3 15/16 x 2 1/2")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Interior; Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair; Printed Material\Book; Costume\Outerwear\Shawl; Photographic format\Carte-de-visite; Interior\Studio\Photography; Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe: Female; Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist; Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Abolitionist; Portrait

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