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By playing on Northern resentment of the Fugitive Slave Act (turning them into unpaid slave-catchers), and arousing interest in the Underground Railroad, the safe-house system that smuggled fugitives into Canada.

This best-seller brought many new recruits to the cause of Abolitionism, and widened the rift between the two sections. When Lincoln met the author, he said "So you're the little lady who started this big war."

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