"I am impressed and inspired by the courage and tenacity of the abolitionists. How awesome it is when people turn their backs on evil, in big ways, and in small ways. I believe that those who resist hatred and evil are the true heroes of each and every generation."

-Footsteps Participant

Emma Cox, the docent for the Stowe House, told us about Harriet Beecher coming to Cincinnati with her father and her work to set up a girl's school. She later married Calvin Stowe and together they had 7 children, one of whom died in infancy. She first started writing to earn money to supplement the family income.

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"The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us; to show their wrongs and sorrows, under a system so necessarily cruel and unjust as to defeat and do away the good effects of all that can be attempted for them, by their best friends under it."

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author's preface from Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Stowe House

Footsteps participants entering the Stowe House

The Stowe House:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe Engines of Our Ingenuity No. 1206
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture