One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American abolitionist and author. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. Read more on Wikipedia →

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