Woman Against Slavery (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Anthony Scott
- First Published: 1978
- Time of Work: 1811–1878
- Setting: Connecticut, Ohio, and Maine
- Principal Characters: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, Roxanne Foote Beecher, Catherine Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, Calvin Ellis Stowe, John Pierce Brace, William Lloyd Garrison
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Social reform, Abolitionists, Authors or writers, Slavery or slaves, Religion, Midwest, Ohio, Writing, Brothers and sisters, New England, Novelists, Preaching, Biography
- Locales: Connecticut, Ohio, Maine
Form and Content
The chronology of Stowe’s life is followed, chapter by chapter, in John Anthony Scott’s Woman Against Slavery: The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book documents her life from her birth in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, through her vicissitudes as daughter, student, wife, mother, and author, while making the reader aware of the various influences that brought Stowe ultimately to her destiny as the historic “woman against slavery.”
Stowe’s early family life, her education, and the intensely religious background that contributed to...
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