This four page lesson is a brief biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who lived from 1811 to 1896. When Stowe visited plantations in Kentucky, she saw slavery in action, and it upset her. She never forgot what she saw and her hatred of slavery deepened. She became an abolitionist and a supporter of the Underground Railroad. After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Stowe decided to write about the evils of slavery. The result was her influential book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which stirred t