How Did Harriet Beecher Stoowe Impact The Abolition Movement

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Harriet Beecher Stowe impacted the abolition movement the most out of all of the abolitionists that we studied. Harriet visited the south and saw the horrors of slavery, that as a girl from Northern descent, she had been oblivious to. After seeing the unimaginable, she wrote a book entitled Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book told a story of an African-American male in the system of slavery. He was sold from slaveowner to slaveowner, and each time he was sold his life became harder and harder. The book eventually put Tom in Louisiana, where he was eventually violently beat. As northerners began to read her novel, they began to realize that slavery was a lot worse they thought it was. After reading her story, the abolition movement began to take flight

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