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Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT Phone: 860-522-9258 URL: www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is best known today as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which helped galvanize the abolitionist cause and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. Uncle Tom's Cabin sold over 10,000 copies in the first week and was a best seller of its day. After the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe became an internationally acclaimed celebrity and an extremely popular author. | 
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