In 1853, a very important book against slavery was written by a woman who hated slavery. Her name was Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the \_21\_ of the book was Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book quickly sold 100,000 copies; \_22\_ helped create a wave of hatred against slavery in the North. When \_23\_ why she wrote it, Stowe stated that she had not written the book. She said, "God wrote it. I merely wrote His \_24\_." Uncle Tom's Cabin \_25\_ the start of the Civil War between the North and the South. In fact, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he asked, "Is this the little woman whose book made such a great war?"