Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, orator, editor, and author, was considered the greatest preacher of his time. The famous son of a famous father, he also was the brother of a famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)....

Writing to her brother Henry Ward Beecher in 1851, shortly after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe seethed with frustration. "Why I have felt almost choked sometimes with pent up wrath that does no good," she confessed. Stowe...

Henry Ward Beecher (24 June 1813-8 March 1887) was the most popular preacher in America during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Known for his outspoken positions on the temperance, abolitionist, and women's rights issues, Beecher was also...

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American Congregational clergyman, was an outstanding preacher and lecturer. He was probably the best known and most influential Protestant minister in the United States between 1850 and 1887. Henry Ward Beecher, the...