June 29, 2011
Lecture Highlights Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Impact on the
Civil War at the Main Library on July 24, 3:00 p.m.
Abraham Lincoln is credited with greeting Harriet Beecher Stowe as the “little lady that caused
this big war.” While documentation of this quote is sketchy, the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
on the Civil War was profound. The best selling novel of the 19th century, which sold over
300,000 copies its first year in print, awakened the nation to the conditions of slavery and fueled
the anti-slavery movement.
Join Helen Spoon, Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House Board Member and Stowe
scholar, as she presents “The Little Lady and the Civil War” on July 24 at the Main
Library (800 Vine Street) at 3:00 p.m. in the 3rd floor Huenefeld Tower Room.
This program, jointly sponsored by the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and the Public Library of
Cincinnati and Hamilton County, is part of yearlong activities recognizing Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s 200th birthday and 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War.