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AudioLife of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals
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LibriVox recording of Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals by Charles Edward Stowe. Read in English by Michele Fry Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to have touched off the American Civil War with her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), awakening the whole world to the harsh conditions of slavery. She wrote 30 other successful books depicting life in early America, plus collections of well written articles and travellogues, poems, hymns, and speeches on social issues. Harriet's father and all 7 of her brothers were ministers, her 5 sisters teachers and/or social activists, a whole family concerned with improving society. Her father was the outspoken Calvinist preacher Lyman Beecher, a Calvinist minister who became one of the best-known evangelists of his age. Her younger brother, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was one of the most famous orators of his day and with Harriet, was very active in the Underground Railroad, for which both were savagely attacked by the slave holding aristocracy. After the War, Harriet and her husband Calvin Stowe, a theology profess…
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Charles Edward Stowe
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librivox; audiobooks;biography; American history; Uncle Tom's cabin; Harriet Beecher Stowe; the civil war; oldtown folks; dred scott; the minister's wooing; george elliot
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