Harriet Beecher Store, who lived between 1811 and 1896, wanted to dramatize in this novel the situation of the slaves and also to denounce the hateful system of slavery. When the book was published, in 1851, it was immediately read by millions y many historian consider that the moral indignation that was awakened by the work was one of the historical causes that helped the abolition of slavery in the United States. Lincoln himseld described its author saying that she was "the little woman who won the war"