
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852, gave many Americans a vivid picture of slavery and in some ways may have helped set North against South (Abraham Lincoln once supposedly said to her, “So you’re the little woman whose book started this great war.”) Her life and works are chronicled in Hartford’s Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, located in the house where she lived during the last 23 years of her life.