A biography of the nineteenth-century author whose anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped intensify the disagreement between North and South.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 106) and index.
Contents
Author and abolitionist -- A religious childhood -- School life -- West to Cincinnati -- Wife, mother, and writer -- Slavery and the background to Uncle Tom's cabin -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- The Civil War -- Later writings and the movement for women's rights -- Her final years.
