HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Els Estats del Sud defensaven l?esclavitud per a les seves gransplantacions, mentre que els del Nord, molt industrialitzats,demanaven la seva abolició. Arrel de la llei de 1850 contra elsesclaus que escapaven a un Estat lliure, Harriet B. Stowe vaescriure

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and abolitionist, famous for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852. Stowe wrote the novel as an angry response to the 1850 passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act, which punished those who aided runaway slaves and diminished the rights of fugitives as well as freed ...