Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe a radical Christian, sought to communicate the abolitionist message to many who had blocked their ears to sermons and jeremiads. She wrote a novel instead, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, that sold 200,000 copies in its first year and, as much as any other force, goaded a nation toward change. --Philip Yancey, What Art Can--and Can’t--Do, First Things, February 2009


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by Harriet Beecher Stowe at Reading Rat