Stock Photo - Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1850s, Daguerreotype, 10.8 x 8.3 cm. (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.), Photographs, Albert Sands Southworth (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811–1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts), Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808–1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire), This quarter-plate daguerreotype of the American author Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was probably made around the time of the publication of her influential novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). The enormously successful book, which the deeply religious Stowe maintained was the result of a vision from God, was instrumental in focusing antislavery sentiment in the North prior to the Civil War