Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe from Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America and what is their importance?

Harriet Beecher Stowe is referred to in the section devoted to "order ways" in the New England, Massachusetts folkway. She is cited for a compliment she makes about where she lives. She shares that the place where she lives is so safe that everyone could go to sleep at night without any doors locked and the windows wide open without the least anxiety of being in even the remotest of danger.

This was a condition of the region which was very intentionally devised by the laws and by the social attitudes of the community.