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She helped to start it, with her novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', written as a protest against the Fugitive Slave Act. The book was a best-seller, and brought many new recruits to the cause of Abolitionism.

It is not true, however, that Lincoln met her and said "So you're the little woman who started this big war."

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