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Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. According to Elizabeth Burgess of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Connecticut, Stowe "considered herself an ardent anti-slavery author because of her Christian faith, and by virtue of writing about American enslavement, she came to fully understand the inhumane cruelty enslaved Americans lived through." |