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Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811
- 1896
Lyman Beecher 1775
- 1863
and Henry Ward Beecher 1813
- 1887 |
Sometime
after 1860, Lyman
Beecher left Boston to live in Brooklyn with his son, Henry Ward Beecher,
popular pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church. Though the younger Beecher's
ministry of love and redemption contrasted strongly with his father's strict
Calvinist philosophy, both he and his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, carried
on their father's opposition to slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel,
Uncle Tom's Cabin, rendered her tragic subject in a style that combined
heartfelt conviction with endless documentary detail, and the book made
her the best-known author of her generation. This image was made around
1861, when Henry Ward Beecher, as editor of the national magazine The
Independent, began to call for ever more radical action from Lincoln
to end slavery and bring the war to a close. Brady's photograph of two
famous siblings and their renowned father record a distinguished American
family and three important intellectual leaders. |
Mathew Brady Studio Albumen silver print (carte de visite), circa 1861
8.5 x 5.3 cm (3 5/16 x 2 1/16 inches)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |