Thank you for your interest in visiting the Stowe Center for Literary Activism at 77 Forest Street, Hartford, CT 06105!

We look forward to inspiring you with the life and work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a complex and controversial novel that galvanized the anti-slavery movement. Our tours address the history of enslavement and racism in a conversational format, and invite and encourage visitors to make connections between inequities then and now.

If you are participating in Museums for All, Blue Star Museums, NARM, are a Hartford Resident, or are using a Library Pass, please reserve your tour admission tickets in advance by first calling 860-522-9258 or then emailing Info@StoweCenter.org.

Unleashing Your Voice: From the Page to the Stage

The Art of Spoken Word

This is an introduction to Spoken Word as an art form and highlight performance elements of spoken word. With the purchase of the workshop participants will get a free writing journal, admission to the Open Mic Night. This series is 14+.

Our intergenerational tour sparks conversations about justice for all ages, highlighting abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, and Anna Murray Douglass, and exploring Stowe’s legacy of love, family, and freedom.

Come explore the Gallery for Hope & Freedom. Guests will have the opportunity to spend time perusing the art, books, and interpretive guides in the Gallery. This is a 30 minute time block to ask questions about the new interpretation, explore the art created by local artists, and discuss what teh space means to them. 

The Gallery for Hope & Freedom is a space we will look at the influence of Black Authors on Stowe and on generations of Black imaginaries, luminaries, and Afro-futurism, looking back to see a clearer and better future.

Tickets are $10 per guest. Open to all ages.