![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to her most famous book she wrote thirty others on a variety of subjects as well as the short stories collected here. She will always be remembered as a tireless campaigner whose work galvanised anti-slavery movements in the northern states and as a committed feminist and advocate for women's rights. The publication of that book exposed the unpalatable and monstrous injustice of slavery to an international readership which had no personal experience of it. ![]() Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) remains renowned as an author for her novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852) which took as its theme the harsh lives of African-American slaves in the southern states of America during the pre-Civil War period. Southern Tales of Haunters and the Haunted ![]()
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