Welcome to the conversation!


Welcome to the conversation!

Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811-1896) best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), made her the most famous American woman of the 19th century and galvanized the abolition movement before the Civil War.

The Stowe Center is a 21st-century museum and program center using Stowe's story to inspire social justice and positive change.

The Salons at Stowe programs are a forum to connect the challenging issues (race, gender and class) that impelled Stowe to write and act with the contemporary face of those same issues. The Salon format is based on a robust level of audience participation, with the explicit goal of promoting civic engagement. Recent topics included: Teaching Acceptance; Is Prison the New Slavery; Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North; Creativity and Change; Race, Gender and Politics Today; How to be an Advocate

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Monday, October 20, 2014

The latest from 2011 Stowe Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity  has just been released - check out Paul Collier's review in the New York Times: Collier on A Path Appears.

What is your take on Kristof and WuDunn's latest work?  Will reading it transform your life?
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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Workshop tonight with Dr. Bill Howe: Understanding Racial Micro-agressions

Do you know how others hear what you say?  Have you ever felt stereotyped and/or put down by a colleague or friend's remarks? 

Do you want to understand better how others hear what you say  and  learn how to communicate without bias?

Join us tonight for a Salon at Stowe workshop with Dr. Bill Howe. Howe's programs at Stowe have been popular - so, to accommodate more people, we will meet across the street at Immanuel Congregational Fellows (10 Woodland Street in Hartford) from 5 to 7:30 PM.

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