How Did Harriet Beecher Stoowe Become An Abolitionist

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Many people played an important part against fighting against enslavement. A lot of different abolitionist helped a lot of people that were enslaved. People were going out of there way risking their life to be an important vessel in fight against pro slavery. A lot of people were teaching and helping slaves is more able to succeed in life people. There were a few anti slave acts that help get the word out about slaves and their story. Nobody really knew how enslaved people felt and what they went through in order to just stay alive.
Harriet Beecher Stowe born June 14, 1811 In Connecticut. She was a American abolitionist and she was a author. The book she wrote was Uncle Tom’s Cabin depiction of life of African Americans. She was seventh of …show more content…

She sold over a hundred thousand books in different languages and it became a phenomenon very quickly. People that had no idea of what was going on with slavery and the depth of how bad people were being treated now knew. She soon became one of the most hated people in America.
Being a important leader in this time she really helped give a deep message to people that were ignorant to the fact of how people were being treated. She was the face of anti slavery and soon became the bomb that started the civil war. She was a small woman with a sharp tongue that wasn’t concern with what people felt like she should be doing she was doing what she knew was right.
Abraham Lincolns take on her was that she as the small little woman that started the civil war. She was someone that sparked the minds of people that didn’t know or did know that these things were going on with slaves. Lincolns was a important back bone that she felt like she needed when it came to the hatred people showed her. They could not react on anything simply because of her moral support from other abolitionist, and the

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