Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. Stowe lived with her father Lyman Beecher, Roxanna Foote Beecher, and her 12 other brothers and sisters. But sadly in Harriet’s childhood years her mother passed away. Her father was a leading Congregationalist minister, and he taught his daughter very well. Throughout Stowe’s years she achieved a national fame for her anti-slavery book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This book fanned the flames of Sectionalism before the Civil War. Once the Civil War began Harriet went to D.C. where she Meet Abe Lincoln. He said “so you are the little women who wrote the book that started this Great War.” As Stowe got older she began to write about social and political causes for the rest of her life. She published stories, essays, and textbooks. When Stowe was 85 she sadly died on July 1, 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut. After her passing she had landmarks dedicated to her in memory of her work.