Harriet Beecher Stowe

Here is an article for Black History Month that you may find interesting regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe, the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War and Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The article contains these two interesting quotations:

When President Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1863, he is reported to have said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!"

"if a slave can come to Mount Sion and to Jesus and to the company of saints in the New Jerusalem, how can you set him up on an auction block and trade him from one white man to another?"

You can read the article at http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/131christians/musiciansartistsandwriters/stowe.html