Harriet Beecher Stowe

On June 5, 1851, the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe was first published in serial form in "The National Era". From the article:

"Harriet Beecher Stowe was a world-renowned American writer, staunch abolitionist and one of the most influential women of the 19th century. Although she wrote dozens of books, essays and articles during her lifetime, she was best known for her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly, which brought unprecedented light to the plight of enslaved people and, many historians believe, helped incite the American Civil War."