Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was a prolific American writer and an activist for the abolition of slavery. Best known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, she wrote thirty books, including novels, memoirs, and collections of articles and letters.

Karen Fisher Younger is chairperson of the humanities department and assistant professor of history at Waynesburg University. She is the author of numerous articles and essays on the slave trade, colonization, and Liberia, and is editor of Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).