Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 1811 – July 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. According to Daniel R. Vollaro, writing in the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, the goal of the book was to educate Northerners on the realistic horrors of the things that were happening in the South. In 1986, Stowe was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in New York.