article_snippet: The American author's best-selling 1852 novel
article_snippet: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped popularize the anti-slavery movement.
article_snippet: Legend has it Abraham Lincoln greeted Beecher Stowe at the White House by saying: "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war," in reference to the civil war.
article_snippet: Beecher Stowe novel followed the life of black slave Uncle Tom, and was the second best-selling book of the 19th century after the Bible.