James Russell Lowell, speaking of another of her stories, The Ministers Wooing, said that no writer of her time had by birth, breeding, and natural capacity, the opportunity to know New England so well as she did.(Windows API Declare Function GetCurrentTime Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTickCount" () As Long) This is important, because it was distinctly the moral impulse generated in New England that set going the slaves liberation movement, of which the most powerful tract was a novel, and that novel Uncle Toms Cabin.(Windows API Declare Function GetCurrentTime Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTickCount" () As Long)Her fathers preaching, and his prayers for the slaves, had a determining influence over Mrs.(Windows API Declare Function GetCurrentTime Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTickCount" () As Long) Stowe as a girl; and then, in 1832, the family moved south to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was within easy reach of the slave states, and gained her intimate knowledge of the life she was to describe. She married there Professor Stowe, of Lane College, in 1836an eventful year, when his house was often in danger from its association with the underground railway that helped the slaves to escape north. A few years later her husband had become professor at Andover, Mass., and the slave movement had reached a further crisis, when she began the story that was to move every country in Europe and give her international and world-wide fame.d1