The minister's wooing. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. - Softcover

Michigan Historical Reprint Series

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425563473 ISBN 13: 9781425563479

Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2005

Synopsis

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.

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About the Author:

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she was raised in a deeply religious family and educated in a seminary school run by her elder sister. In her adult life, Stowe married biblical scholar and abolitionist Calvin Ellis Stowe, who would later go on to work as Harriet s literary agent, and the two participated in the Underground Railroad by providing temporary refuge for escaped slaves travelling to the American North. Shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Stowe published her most famous work, Uncle Tom s Cabin, a stark and sympathetic depiction of the desperate lives of African American slaves. The book went on to see unprecedented sales, and informed American and European attitudes towards abolition. In the years leading up to her death, suffering from dementia or Alzheimer s disease, Stowe is said to have begun re-writing Uncle Tom s Cabin, almost word-for-word, believing that she was writing the original manuscript once again. Stowe died in July 1, 1896 at the age of eighty-five.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1425563473
• ISBN 13: 9781425563479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 586