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, May 9, 2016

#StoweSyllabus: What We're Reading this Week

Articles and current events that got us thinking over the week! 
A new way to map the spread and decline of slavery in the U.S.
Tanvi Misra, April 27, 2016, CityLab
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/04/a-new-way-to-map-the-spread-and-decline-of-slavery-in-the-us/480000/

Civil-rights laws don’t always stop racism
Calvin Schermmerhorn, May 8, 2016, The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/the-memphis-massacre-of-1866-and-black-voter-suppression-today/481737/

The Black Panther may have his roots in a 15th century African Kingdom
Winona Dimeo-Ediger, May 7, 2016, NPR Goats and Soda
http://n.pr/1Wlm8UO

How Americans became so sensitive to harm
Conor Friedersdorf, April 19, 2016, The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/concept-creep/477939/

What are your reactions to the pieces? What articles, news pieces, or video-clips have you come across over the week? Let us know, below!
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