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.

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

#StoweSyllabus: What We're Reading this Week

Current events and articles that got us thinking over the week!

272 slaves were sold to save Georgetown. What does it owe to their descendants?
Rachel L. Swarns, April 16, 2016, The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/us/georgetown-university-search-for-slave-descendants.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0 

The secret history of the photo at the center of the Black Confederate myth
Adam Serwer, April17, 2016, BuzzFeed
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/the-secret-history-of-the-photo-at-the-center-of-the-black-c?bftw&utm_term=.bm4Vp41A3#.xvXa7RjmB  

Was Harriet Beecher Stowe an abolitionist?
Manisha Sinha, April 14, 2016, We’re History
http://werehistory.org/stowe/   

Working class heroes
Jelani Cobb, April 25, 2016, The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/25/learning-to-talk-about-class 
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