Upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe for the first time, President Abraham Lincoln quipped, "So this is the little lady who made this big war?" Stowe's antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, garnered enough popular support in the United States and abroad that the Civil War was fought, in part, to abolish slavery. In spite of limited opportunities for women, Stowe became the best-selling author of the century.
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Upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe for the first time, President Abraham Lincoln quipped, "So this is the little lady who made this big war?" Stowe's antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, garnered enough popular support in the United States and abroad that the Civil War was fought, in part, to abolish slavery. In spite of limited opportunities for women, Stowe became the best-selling author of the century.
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