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Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a New Englander by birth and a Midwesterner by migration. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811. Harriet and her entire family moved to the Midwest. Harriet’s father, Lyman Beecher, being a Congregationalist minister, accepted the position as president of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati, a border city, faced issues regarding slavery. Cincinnati bordered two slave states, Virginia and Kentucky. The city of Cincinnati is located on the Ohio River, the boundary separating Ohio and Kentucky. Before the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Kentucky slaves would escape from bondage and cross the Ohio River and could live as free men and free women in Ohio, which was a free state. This was due in part by the passing of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Missouri Compromise of 1820, provided “that in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of 36 deg 30’ north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, shall be, and is hereby forever prohibited.” However, the