Harriet Beecher was born June 14, 1811, the seventh child of a famous protestant preacher. Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine: her earliest publication was a geography for children, issued under her sister's name in 1833. In 1836, Harriet married widower Calvin Stowe: they eventually had seven children. Stowe helped to support her family financially by writing for local and religious periodicals. During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children's books, …
showed first 75 words of 981 total

showed last 75 words of 981 total
…that Eva and St. Clare die. (Bondage narrative) The Plantation: Up the Red River and away from New Orleans in the depth of swamp, Legree has his plantation. There are no other white folk on the plantation--no one can testify against Legree in court except for a white person, so he can never be accused of misdeed. Here Tom spends his last days picking cotton, until Legree and his two overseers beat him to death