Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a novelist and abolitionist who is best known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was first published in 1852 and became an instant classic. When the novel was published, it depicted life in the United States during that time period, which emboldened the North and enraged the South. Stowe was the author of 30 novels, including three trip memoirs, during her lifetime.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis is most remembered for his time as President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War. He was born in Virginia and raised in Tennessee. However, that was not the only thing he accomplished during his lifetime. Additionally, Davis served as a Mississippi senator and as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce, and he fought in the Mexican-American War.
