Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852

   

                                                               Harriet Beecher Stowe(author)

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.

https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/opinion/14Reynolds.html?_r=0

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abraham Lincoln

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It is reported that upon being introduced to Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, Abraham Lincoln fondly commented she was "the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."