Abraham Lincoln’s quote “So you’re the little lady who caused all of this”. Explain

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h? pleaaaaaaase, and if you can explain in in like..a paragraph, ill give you best answer
 
I can only tell you he was referring to Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, if you didn't already know this. Good Luck!!
 
Abe Lincoln is referring to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. This book caused a change in the way Northerners thought about slavery, making them see the true evilness of it. However, the South didn't take to this book too kindly. They rang out protests on how it was "unfair" because Stowe herself had never witnessed slavery in the Deep South (where slavery was reportedly more familial and therefore better for the slaves). This book caused increasingly heated tensions between the North and the South, until it would hit the tipping point, the Civil War. In reference to Lincoln's quote, it is quite true that Harriet Beecher Stowe was at least one of the many causes of the Civil War.

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When Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe at the White House in 1862, he reportedly said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lonely was published in 1852 and sold 300,000 in six months. It was translated into 16 languages and sold another 300,000 copies. The only book in more homes than Stowe's novel was the Bible. Before it was published in book form it was in a series in the monthly National Era, it did have mass appeal. Another estimate of its affect was that each copy was probably read by 8 to 10 people meant that over 10% of the total U.S. population read the book.
 
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