Harriet Beecher Stowe House, in Brunswick, Maine, where, between 1850 and 1852, Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her husband taught at Bowdoin College in the town.
“I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows of injustice I saw.’’
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), New England writer and abolitionist, on her momentous 1862 book Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Cruel slaveowner Simon Legree assaults Uncle Tom in the novel.
