Stowe and mother of seven. Stowe lived in Cincinnati and while living there he witnessed through his eyes people being enslaved. He also met people who had been enslaved. Stowe witnessed slavery when he visited places like Kentucky, as it was a large slave town. He witnessed a lot of slavery growing up and getting older. Stowe opened herself up to slavery firsthand due to her grandmother holding African Americans as slaves. Exposure to this throughout her life is what inspired her to write “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” and it played a significant role in accelerating the abolition of slavery in the United States. Stowe died in July 1,