<p>Raised in a religious Connecticut family, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a hugely prolific, prominent, and brave author and abolitionist, whose work was popular on both sides of the Atlantic, and whose searing depiction of the plight of enslaved peoples,<em> Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin, </em>helped force the critical issue of the humanity of Black people and the moral imperative of abolition and equality into the American national consciousness in the years leading up to the Civil War.</p>
