katherine kane - harriet becher stowe center
DESCRIPTION
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
www.HarrietBeecherStowe.org
![Page 2: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center uses Stowe’s story to inspire social justice and positive change.
![Page 3: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
2012 1884
![Page 4: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Slide template
Katharine Day House, 1884
![Page 5: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Chapter 34
Collection14,000 books,
periodicals, pamphlets, broadsides
180,000 manuscripts: correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts
12,000 photographs, prints, drawings
6,000 artifacts
3 historic buildings
![Page 6: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
New York City
Boston
Hartford
Chicago
Miami
![Page 7: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
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
![Page 8: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Lyman Beecher & his children
![Page 9: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Cincinnati Ohio
Litchfield CT
Hartford CT
Brunswick ME
Andover MA
Mandarin FL
![Page 10: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Becoming a writer
![Page 11: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Marriage & family
![Page 12: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Children
![Page 13: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era
![Page 14: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
USA:
10,000 books in first week
300,000 first year
Britain: 1,500,000 first year
70 languages
![Page 15: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Swedish 1925, 1963; Russian mid 20th c; Spanish (Mexico) 1963
![Page 16: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Why did Stowe write Uncle
Tom’s Cabin?
• Personal
• Political
![Page 17: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin storyline
• Tom • Eliza • George Harris• Topsy• St. Clair• Little Eva • Aunt Ophelia • Simon Legree
![Page 18: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
![Page 19: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
• 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
Uncle Tom’s Cabin impact
![Page 20: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Uncle Tom
1853 1890s
![Page 21: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Smith’s Double
Mammoth
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Theatre broadside 1890s
![Page 22: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Stowe’s Hartford
home
![Page 23: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
• 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
Program Framework
![Page 24: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Some Stowe Center programs
Salons
Stowe Prize
24 hour reading
Public & school tours
Community open houseExhibits
![Page 25: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Paths to Change
![Page 26: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Role playing
![Page 27: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Salons at Stowe
![Page 28: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Inspiration to Action
![Page 29: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
• 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?
Salon Topics
![Page 30: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Imitation
Revenue
Relationships
Word of mouth
Action
Impact
![Page 31: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Weekly “re-release” on web over a year
24 hour reading Webcast
Video testimony
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Programs
![Page 32: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Stowe Prize
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn for Half the Sky: Overcoming Oppression of Women Worldwide
![Page 33: Katherine Kane - Harriet Becher Stowe Center](https://reader037.vdocuments.net/reader037/viewer/2022110302/5468bab6af795981018b4ea6/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Call to Action: A conversation on race
& social justice