1886 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE SIGNED INSCRIBED DATED QUOTATION, WITH FINE ENGRAVING

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1886 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE SIGNED INSCRIBED DATED QUOTATION, WITH FINE ENGRAVING:
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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, signed, dated,quotation, with original steel engraving circa 1865.

Harriet Beecher Stowe quotation andsignature on a thick card measuring 3-5/8” x 2” or 9.3, 5.1cm. In Harriet Beecher Stowe’s handwriting: “ Trust in the Lord Anddo good H.B. StoweAug 3 1886”. Glue residueon the reverse side. Harriet BeecherStowe steel engraving by A.H. Ritchie. Measures 10” x 6-3/8” or 25.4, 16.2cm.Engraving printed by D. Appleton, New York.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from theBeecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novelUncle Tom\'s Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslavedAfrican Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and becameinfluential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slaveryforces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South.Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collectionsof articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and herpublic stances on social issues of the day. In 1832, at the age of 21, HarrietBeecher moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become thepresident of Lane Theological Seminary. There, she also joined the Semi-ColonClub, a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beechersisters, Caroline Lee Hentz, Salmon P. Chase (future governor of the state andSecretary of Treasury under President Lincoln), Emily Blackwell and others.[5]Cincinnati\'s trade and shipping business on the Ohio River was booming, drawingnumerous migrants from different parts of the country, including many freeblacks, as well as Irish immigrants who worked on the state\'s canals andrailroads. Areas of the city had been wrecked in the Cincinnati riots of 1829,when ethnic Irish attacked blacks, trying to push competitors out of the city.Beecher met a number of African Americans who had suffered in those attacks,and their experience contributed to her later writing about slavery. Riots tookplace again in 1836 and 1841, driven also by native-born anti-abolitionists. It was in the literary club that she metCalvin Ellis Stowe, a widower who was a professor at the seminary. The twomarried on January 6, 1836. He was an ardent critic ofslavery, and the Stowes supported the Underground Railroad, temporarily housingseveral fugitive slaves in their home. Most slaves continued north tosecure freedom in Canada. The Stowes had seven children together, includingtwin daughters.