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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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Stowe on #CriminalMinds



Not exactly social justice related, but our own Harriet Beecher Stowe appeared on Criminal Minds last night. Well, her words at least.

Each Criminal Minds episode begins and ends and ends with a quote that encapsulates the themes of the episode.

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes (1865) 

What do you think this quote means? Do you know of any other Stowe/pop-culture connections? 


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