harriet beecher stowe herself, it started with the idea of a book but to me it is all about people. and what she was doing and what she with experiencing and everything filtered through her friend and family. the most important family in nineteenth century america. it helped it was so important to put it in that context but above all uncle tom s cabin is a human book. it raises issues of interpersonal relationships. between white people and black people. to me the biography of harriet beecher stowe. you have to tell us which part made you cry. i hate to admit it. very poignant. the death of little eva. like an archetype of the nineteenth century seen. to name a number of similar deaths. it struck me because it was sentimental and i was saying this is a similar scene and yet going to the afterlife that makes it very clear he was dying with millions of enslaved black people who were free and i don t know why it struck me. won t say i will cry the next time i read the bo