After capturing a glimpse of the struggles and accomplishments of women through the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Abigail Adams, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; the role of women is miniscule by societal standards, but the road to equality was slowly being built by resolute brilliant women. We now take a peek into the 1800-1900s and further investigate the growing campaign of women’s rights. Specifically, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s literary effects and how she takes her power of writing to disclose an enemy. The religious impact of Lucretia Mott, an abolitionist, and heavy influencer of the women's suffrage movement was another component in the expanding equality. Lastly, a woman by the name of Araminta Ross, a slave, would also influence many.…show more content… Most famously known for writing the best-seller of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was the first major American work of literature in which a black man is the hero. A newspaper serial in the National Era turned book. Her life’s experiences gave her an understanding of life’s trials among slaves and slave owners and the complications involved within the suffering that was slavery. Stowe was raised by a strong set of parents who promoted lively discourse around the dining table covering all sorts of subjects. This activity conducted with her siblings and parents taught her how to speak strongly and passionately about popular topics of the day. Her minister father spoke strongly against slavery and she would follow in his footsteps. She would at one time come to the defense of a dear friend, Lady Byron, exposing her friend’s husband and his incestuous affair with a step-sister. Stowe saw this injustice as yet another form of slavery and another atrocious breach of civil rights. As Stowe biographer Joan Hedrick notes in Harriet Beecher Stowe, A Life (Oxford University Press, 1994), Stowe felt compelled to defend Lady Byron even in her death.
