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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward
Beecher
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In this photograph, Harriet Beecher Stowe sits with her
father, Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), and her brother, Henry
Ward Beecher (1813–1887). Lyman, a Presbyterian clergyman,
had three sons follow him in his calling, including Henry
Ward Beecher, the most famous Beecher, next to his sister,
Harriet. In 1856, from his pulpit in Plymouth (Congregationalist)
Church in Brooklyn, New York, Henry Ward Beecher enthusiastically
preached against the expansion of slavery into Kansas.
He supported equipping free-state emigrants to Kansas
with Sharps carbine rifles, stating that they would be
of greater moral persuasion than the Bible in dealing
with slaveholders. In Kansas, Sharps rifles became known
as Beecher’s Bibles. |
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Mathew Brady Studio (active 1844–1883)
Albumen silver print, 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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