Chapter 6: removal to Brunswick, 1850-1852.
- Mrs. Stowe's remarks on writing and understanding biopraphy. -- their appropriateness to her own biography. -- reasons for Professor Stowe's leaving Cincinnati. -- Mrs. Stowe's journey to Brooklyn. -- her brother's success as a minister. -- letters from Hartford and Boston. -- arrives in Brunswick. -- history of the slavery agitation. -- practical working of the fugitive slave law. -- Mrs. Edward Beecher's letter to Mrs. Stowe and its effect. -- domestic trials. -- begins to write Uncle Tom's Cabin as a serial for the national era. -- letter to Frederick Douglass. -- Uncle Tom's Cabin a work of religious emotion.
Early in the winter of 1849 Mrs. Stowe wrote in a private journal in which she recorded thought and feeling concerning religious themes:
It has been said that it takes a man to write the life of a man ; that is, there must be similarity of mind in the person who undertakes to present the character of another. This is true, also, of reading and understanding biography. A statesman and general would read the life of Napoleon with the spirit and the understanding, while the commonplace man plods through it as a task. The difference is that the one, being of like mind and spirit with the subject of the biography, is able to sympathize with him in all his thoughts and experiences, and the other is not. The life of Henry Martyn would be tedious and unintelligible to a mind like that of a Richelieu or a Mazarin. They never experienced or
