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 19, 2014

How do you engage students to use their voices?

Check out Adam Fletcher's list of "50 Ways Adults Can Engage Student Voice." Fletcher is the founder of The Free Child Project and Sound Out, and works to inspire young people to use their voices, get involved, take action, and change the world.

Choose one of Fletcher's 50 tips and share with us how you will use it to inspire a young person. Post your thoughts and action in the comments section below!

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