Civil war Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. It became a publishing sensation. Lincoln was later wryly to remark to her: ‘So you're…

— Michael Shaara

Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote…

— Sophy Burnham

“It was said by Abraham Lincoln that Ms. Stowe's novel, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, started the great civil war, the it can be said with…

— Alabama Jane Brown

Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen…

— Sophy Burnham

“Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers

“Aunt Hattie, when you wrote that book, I imagine you were thinking of something radical: the abolition of slavery itself. You were only one…

— Roxana Robinson

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen…

— Harriet Tubman

“By contrast, the subsequent waves of Puritans in their search for profits quickly uprooted all natives and sold many of them into slavery without…

— Jack Weatherford

Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of people like…

— James McBride

“The Puritans believed that the identity of the Saints had long since been determined by God. This meant that there was nothing a person…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed