Harriet Beecher Stowe, born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, was an American abolitionist and author, best known for her anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852). Stowe was the seventh of eleven children in the Beecher clan, a prominent religious family with her father Lyman, a famed preacher, and siblings who influenced religious and educational spheres. Harriet's literary prowe...