Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, suffragette, writer, and devout Calvinist. Her best know novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (UTC), was written at a time of great civil unrest when slavery was common in the United States. Lincoln (pictured here in the portrait) upon meeting Stowe exclaimed to her, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” The war Lincoln refers to is the Civil War, where American fought American and where slavery was finally abolished. Today the novel is problematic as many of the “stereotypes” featured in the book are not “politically correct”. UTC still stands as one of the most galvanizing books in sold more copies in the 19th century that any other book in the world second to only the Bible. Whether problematic or not, the character of Tom still stands as one of the more pious and best loved characters in Early American Literature.