Harriet Beecher Stowe in her early 20s (5)

Virtual Visit: Click here to visit Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home in Cincinnati, Ohio from age 21 until her marriage at age 25 ~ Meet Stowe’s famous father and siblings and take a virtual tour of the house (6)

Virtual Visit: Click here to learn more about the Harriet Beecher Stowe house in Brunswick, Maine. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in this house. It’s also a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site, having sheltered a fugitive slave from South Carolina as part of the secret network of safe houses in the Underground Railroad (7)

Click here to see various photographs and postcards of the Harriet Beecher Stowe house in Brunswick, Maine where Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written (8)

Click above for links by state to the secret safe houses that were part of the Underground Railroad (9) 

Virtual Visit: Click above to enjoy a visit to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT and learn about the author’s life through the collections (10)

Click above for photos taken from inside Harriet Beecher Stowe’s bedroom at the Stowe Center in Hartford, CT (11)

Click above to read a sampling from an illustrated copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the Library of Congress (12)

Click above to read Harriet Beecher Stowe’s letters and journal entries from the time of her arrival in Brunswick when her husband was hired as an instructor at Bowdoin College in 1850 to the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 (Chapter 6, starting on page 79) ~ This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s son Charles (13)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (14)

Click here to learn about Victorian Magic Lantern shows and see magic lantern slides of Uncle Tom’s Cabin from the mid 1800s (15)

Click here to read the Magic Lantern Show script that went along with 12 slides depicting Uncle Tom’s Cabin enjoyed by audiences in 1881  (Click on each colored glass magic lantern slide to enlarge it) (16)

Click on this 1st edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin to read reviews from 1852, the year it was published in book form (17)

Click here to explore over 600 illustrations from 19 editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin published between 1852 and 1930 (18)

Click here to read selections from A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the facts and documents she used in the writing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (19)

Harriet Beecher Stowe with her husband Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1852, the year Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published (20)

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abraham Lincoln (21)

Click here to see this statue at the National War Memorial Registry website and read what President Lincoln is said to have exclaimed upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 (22)

Click HERE (23) to see Harriet Beecher Stowe’s illustrated book of short stories Sam Lawson’s Oldtown Fireside Stories published in 1881 ~ For ease of reading, read one of the short stories click HERE (24)

Click here and zoom in to read one of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s obituaries from 1896 (25)