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What President Lincoln mean when he said to Harriet Beecher Stowe, "So this is the little lady who made this big war," to what was he referring?

President Lincoln was referring to Harriet Stowe's Uncle Toms Cabin, a novel written about slavery. The reason why this novel becomes such a symbol for the North and other countries was because it was the first novel in American culture to ever have blacks as its main character with wickedness slavery has it story line. Harriet Stowe wanted to write this novel because she wanted a way to combat slavery due to the fugitive slave law. The novel soon was published in the "National Era," which is what first started the North to read with anticipation for the next week's story to be published.

While writing her novel she was supported by her kids and husband. While attending church she even had a vision. The only person to come in her path of not writing the book was her step father, who at the same time was writing a book, and thinking that his book was more important. Never the less, her book sold 300,000 copies in the first year and millions of copies between 1852 and 1860. The book has been said to start the Republican Party and has started "this big war." Due to her ability to vividly describe slavery and brining it home to the Union. Harriet Stowe says "God wrote it," leaving the reader to feel like he or she is reading something from a higher power.

Harriet would inspire an author to write, The Impending Crisis of the South, written by Hinton R. Helper which would attack slavery from the angel that the whites suffered most from slavery. The book would be banned and burned in the South. Henry Beecher raised money for the purchase of new breech-loading sharp rifles nicknamed "Beecher's Bible."

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