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In Celebration of Harriet Beecher Stowe

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From: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
Date: 19960615
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To celebrate Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday, Scott Simon reads excerpts from one of her most famous books, "Uncle Tom's Cabin". President Lincoln referred to that book as the one that started the Civil War.

SCOTT SIMON, Host: This week marked the birthday of the woman who Abraham Lincoln is said to have said upon meeting, `So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.' Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, and, at the age of 40, her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. It was never considered great literature, but for ...

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