TheCambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe

Stowe’s Beecher family lineage had a significant impact on the way her contemporaries
perceivedher.During her lifetime, familymembersand friendsworked
hard to create an image that would appeal to her reading audience. During her
declining years, her son Charles Stowe wrote the first authorized biography,
where he cast Uncle Tom’s Cabin as “a work of religion” guided by the same
republican principles that had motivated the Declaration of Independence
and “made Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, and Patrick Henry anti-slavery
men.”1 Around the same time, Florine Thayer McCray, a Hartford neighbor,

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