Author: Damian Hendricks

Papantonio: Social Change Requires Citizen Participation (VIDEO)

At a glance, there was nothing extraordinary that you could notice about Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was a mother raising children in a small house on a small Connecticut farm. She wasn’t a well known political figure, and although she was an abolitionist, she wasn’t even regarded as a significant leader of that movement. But what she was, was someone just like you, who had the same kind of moral compass – the same level of disgust and anger when she noticed people not treating other people very well. Harriet was not even an accomplished writer in 1851 when...

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