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-Provided sanctuary for escaped slaves in defiance of recently passed fugitive slave laws.
- Served as a supporter/member of the Underground Railroad.
- While in church service she had a vision of a slave dying inspiring her to share his story with others.
- Wrote the fictional novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin to help others see the horrors of slavery.
- It brought the horrors of slavery such as how mothers were often torn from their families directly to the people of the North in a way it never had before.
- Many of the heroes of the story are women pointing to Stowe’s belief that women were important to the cause of ending slavery.
- It sold 300,000 copies in less than a year – one of the fastest selling books ever up to that point. It was the best-selling novel of the 1800s. The only book to sell more was the Bible.
- It was made into a play spreading the story even further among the lower classes who couldn’t read. The play also became incredible popular.
- The story so inspired the North that many babies born at the time were named after characters in it.
- Later in life she became an advocate for women’s rights, specifically married women, arguing that they had as little freedom as the slaves themselves.
- Served as a supporter/member of the Underground Railroad.
- While in church service she had a vision of a slave dying inspiring her to share his story with others.
- Wrote the fictional novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin to help others see the horrors of slavery.
- It brought the horrors of slavery such as how mothers were often torn from their families directly to the people of the North in a way it never had before.
- Many of the heroes of the story are women pointing to Stowe’s belief that women were important to the cause of ending slavery.
- It sold 300,000 copies in less than a year – one of the fastest selling books ever up to that point. It was the best-selling novel of the 1800s. The only book to sell more was the Bible.
- It was made into a play spreading the story even further among the lower classes who couldn’t read. The play also became incredible popular.
- The story so inspired the North that many babies born at the time were named after characters in it.
- Later in life she became an advocate for women’s rights, specifically married women, arguing that they had as little freedom as the slaves themselves.
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