HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Writer and Prophetic Witness is the notation on July 1 for her inclusion in the Calendar of Saints of the Episcopal Church in the USA. She is credited with bringing the plight of slaves to Americans. She and her siblings had departed from their father’s anti-abolitionist thinking, and became an outspoken proponent of abolition and changing the conditions for slaves. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was only the most prominent of her efforts.

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