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• Harriet Beecher Stowe (noun)
  1. 1811-1896 united States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause
• Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (noun)
  1. 1811-1896 united States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause
• Henry Ward Beecher (noun)
  1. 1813-1887 united States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher
  1. (1811-96) a US writer whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin influenced many people in the US, especially in the North, to oppose SLAVERY (= the system where black people were owned by white people and made to work for them) . In the 20th century, the book was criticized for the way it shows the relationship between slaves and their owners, and the expression "Uncle Tom" is used in a disapproving way to describe a black person who is too eager to please white people.
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