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The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic home in Ohio which was once the residence of influential antislavery
Abolitionism

File:BLAKE10.JPGAbolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man, and Quaker and other evangelical religious groups con...
 author Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S....
 (1811-1896), writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and History of slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the Origins of the American Civil War lea...
.

832, the Stowe family moved from Litchfield, Connecticut
Litchfield, Connecticut

Litchfield is a New England town in and former county seat of Litchfield County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States, and is known as an affluent summer resort....
 to Cincinnati, which was an area active in the abolitionist movement, where her father became the first president of Lane Theological Seminary
Lane Theological Seminary

Lane Theological Seminary was established in the Walnut Hills section of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1829 to educate Presbyterian Religious minister. It was named in honor of Ebenezer and William Lane, who pledged $4,000 for the new school, which was seen as a forward outpost of the Presbyterianism in the western territories of the United States....
 founded in 1830. Rev. Lyman Beecher
Lyman Beecher

Lyman Beecher was a Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader, and the father of many noted leaders, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Catharine Beecher, and a leader of the Second Great Awakening of the United States....
  (October 12, 1775 - January 10, 1865) was a Congregationalist
Congregational church

Congregational churches are Protestantism Christianity churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each Wiktionary:congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....
 minister who accepted an offer to teach at the Lane Seminary in Walnut Hills area of Cincinnati.

The house was part of the former Lane Seminary.






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The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic home in Ohio which was once the residence of influential antislavery
Abolitionism

File:BLAKE10.JPGAbolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man, and Quaker and other evangelical religious groups con...
 author Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S....
 (1811-1896), writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and History of slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the Origins of the American Civil War lea...
.

History

In 1832, the Stowe family moved from Litchfield, Connecticut
Litchfield, Connecticut

Litchfield is a New England town in and former county seat of Litchfield County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States, and is known as an affluent summer resort....
 to Cincinnati, which was an area active in the abolitionist movement, where her father became the first president of Lane Theological Seminary
Lane Theological Seminary

Lane Theological Seminary was established in the Walnut Hills section of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1829 to educate Presbyterian Religious minister. It was named in honor of Ebenezer and William Lane, who pledged $4,000 for the new school, which was seen as a forward outpost of the Presbyterianism in the western territories of the United States....
 founded in 1830. Rev. Lyman Beecher
Lyman Beecher

Lyman Beecher was a Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader, and the father of many noted leaders, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Catharine Beecher, and a leader of the Second Great Awakening of the United States....
  (October 12, 1775 - January 10, 1865) was a Congregationalist
Congregational church

Congregational churches are Protestantism Christianity churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each Wiktionary:congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....
 minister who accepted an offer to teach at the Lane Seminary in Walnut Hills area of Cincinnati.

The house was part of the former Lane Seminary. It was completed in 1833 to house the president of seminary. The house was provided by the seminary to the Beechers. Harriet and most of her brothers and sisters (11 Beecher children lived to adulthood) lived with their father in this house.

Harriet lived here for various periods of time from 1833 until her marriage to professor Calvin E. Stowe in 1836. Her first two children, twins Eliza and Harriet, were born in the house in 1836. It is open to the public, located in small park, and operated as an historical and cultural site, focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S....
, the Lane Seminary, abolitionists, and the Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century African American Slavery in the United States in the United States to escape to free state and Canada with the aid of Abolitionism who were sympathetic to their cause....
. The site also presents African-American history.

Harriet's brother, Henry Ward Beecher, also resided in the Cincinnati Beecher House. He was recently the subject of a Pulitzer-prize winning biography entitled The Most Famous Man in America, written by Debby Applegate. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was an early leader in the women's suffrage movement and popular Protestant minister.

The Beechers and Stowes were some of the most well-known families of the 19th century and were involved in important social movements of their day. They authored dozens of books on topics ranging from Harriet's works of fiction, managing a household, and preparing for the ministry.

The house today

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati is owned by the Ohio Historical Society
Ohio Historical Society

The Ohio Historical Society is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1885 "to promote a knowledge of archaeology and history, especially in Ohio"....
. It is located in the Walnut Hills neighborhood (Dana or Taft Road exits from Interstate 71) at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206 and is operated by volunteers with the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc.

See also

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Connecticut)


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