The daughter of Lyman Beecher. She was deeply impressed with Theodore Weld’s Slavery As It Is, and as a result wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In it she struck at the national conscience in the hope that a cleansing of the nation’s soul would avert a divine scourging of the body politic.
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