Lost Chapters
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Cobalt Character
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 to 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, serialized in 1851 and published as a book in 1852, sold about 300,000 copies in its first year and deepened Northern opposition to slavery before the Civil War.
- Cost
- 1 crystal
- Type
- Character · Free Spirit
- Power / Health
- 1 / 1
- Color
- Cobalt (Thinkers & Dreamers)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
On play: draw a card.
Literary abolitionist whose fictional Uncle Tom awakened a nation to slavery's horrors and inflamed a building civil war.
The real history
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the seventh child of Lyman Beecher, a Congregational minister, and Roxana Foote Beecher. Her mother died when Harriet was five, and her older sister Catherine became a major influence. Her brother Henry Ward Beecher became a famous preacher.
Harriet studied and then taught at her sister's Hartford Female Seminary. In 1832 the family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father became president of Lane Seminary. She married Calvin Stowe, a professor there, in 1836, and the couple had seven children. Cincinnati sits on the Ohio River, the border between free Ohio and slaveholding Kentucky, and its place on the Underground Railroad shaped what she later wrote.
In 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which angered many in the North. In June 1851, the antislavery newspaper The National Era began publishing her story Uncle Tom's Cabin in weekly installments, and it ran for about 40 weeks. The two-volume book came out on March 20, 1852. It sold roughly 10,000 copies in its first week and about 300,000 within a year in the United States, and it was a huge success in Britain as well.
Stowe went on to write other books, including Dred in 1856, and kept writing until the mid-1880s. She spent winters in Florida and lived in Hartford, Connecticut, where Mark Twain was her neighbor. She died at her Hartford home on July 1, 1896.
Sources
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, National Women's History Museum
- History and the Census: Harriet Beecher Stowe, U.S. Census Bureau
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Library of Congress
How the card plays
Harriet Beecher Stowe costs 1 crystal and is a 1/1 Cobalt Free Spirit. When she enters play, draw a card. She is a one-crystal cantrip: she puts a body on the board and replaces herself in your hand.
Play her on turn one, or squeeze her in on a later turn when you have a spare crystal. As a Free Spirit she gets the bonuses meant for her type, and her small size means you can protect her with other cheap effects. The Circus The Circus gives your Free Spirits +1/+1, making her a 2/2. Red, White, & Blue Red, White, & Blue adds +0/+1 to all your characters. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives your other characters +0/+2 and has Protest, so a tiny writer can become a surprisingly durable blocker behind him.
- Playable in decks led by Martin Luther King Jr., Neil Armstrong, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Cobalt.
- In the Dr. King starter deck (2 copies). Deck code:
LC2-BAABAQICAQMBBAEFAQYBBwEIAQkCCgILAQwBDQIOAg8BEAIRARICEwIUAhUBFgEXARgBGQEaARsBHAEdAR4B3v4 - In the Armstrong starter deck (2 copies). Deck code:
LC2-AQABAQECAQMBBAEFAQYBBwEIAgkCCgILAQwBDQIOAQ8BEAERARICEwIUARUBFgEXARgBGQEaARsBHAIdAR4BfQK1eQ - A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.
Questions about Harriet Beecher Stowe
When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?
It began as a serial in the antislavery newspaper The National Era in June 1851, and the two-volume book was published on March 20, 1852.
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