In 1851 the first installment of Stowe's novel "Uncle Toms Cabin was published as a book and appeared in the national era
In the following the book became a best seller. It also contributed a lot to popular feelings to slavery that is sided among the cause of the Civil war.
When she traveled to Washington D.C and met with Abraham Lincoln he greeted her with "You are the little women who wrote the book that started this Great War.