7. Who was
Harriet Beecher Stowe?
• 1811-1896
• Best selling author 30
books, 4 antislavery
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• International fame
• Subject of two Pulitzer
winning biographies
16. Why did Stowe
write Uncle
Tom’s Cabin?
• Personal
• Political
17. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
storyline
• Tom
• Eliza
• George Harris
• Topsy
• St. Clair
• Little Eva
• Aunt Ophelia
• Simon Legree
18.
19. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
impact
• Changed attitudes in US before Civil War
• Made abolition main stream
• Popular culture
• Changed theatre
• Anti-toms
• Fomented revolution
• Uncle Tom became a racial slur
23. Program
Framework
• Contemporary issues that tie to Stowe’s ---
race, gender, inequity
• Conversation & storytelling, not lecture
• Catalyst and convener
• Call to action
• Safe place to talk about hard things
24. Some Stowe Center
programs
Salons
Stowe Prize
24 hour reading
Public & school tours
Community open house
Exhibits
29. Salon Topics
• Human trafficking
• Women in politics
• Race and gender in politics
• Literacy and the schools
• Equalizing access to health care
• Is prison the new slavery?
• How to be an advocate
• Poverty--is the American dream broken?