what did harriet beecher stowe do as an abolitionist?
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 Stowe intended that Fred would manage the estate as he recovered from his wounds and addictions . As an extension of her abolitionist ideals , she wrote to her brother Charles Beecher , however , about her potential role in the endeavor : 

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 In a letter to President Madison , Hinde attributed his opposition to slavery to the influence of his mother . He wrote : 

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 Before publishing the book , Applegate researched and wrote about Beecher for twenty years , starting when she was an undergraduate student at Beecher 's alma mater , Amherst College . The book was generally well received by critics . In 2007 , it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography . 

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 Paine resumed teaching and painted portraits to supplement her earnings , allowing her to support herself and send money to her mother , stepfather and their family , who had moved to Connecticut . To this point her life had been one of turmoil and financial precariousness . Rather than marry another man to secure a better standard of living , she developed a career so that she could support herself . 

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 Henry Ward Beecher became involved in many social issues of his day , most notably abolition . Though Beecher hated slavery as early as his seminary days , his views were generally more moderate than those of abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison , who advocated the breakup of the Union if it would also mean the end of slavery . A personal turning point for Beecher came in October 1848 when he learned of two escaped young female slaves who had been recaptured ; their father had been offered the chance to ransom them from captivity , and appealed to Beecher to help raise funds . Beecher raised over two thousand dollars to secure the girls ' freedom . On June 1 , 1856 , he held another mock slave auction to purchase the freedom of a young woman named Sarah . 
