Their great-grandfather died trying to make something of this land, and it wasn’t until a couple generations later that it actually some sort of fruit. “So, they had this land, but couldn’t do much with it. “A white person might tell the story about how their great-grandfather was given land by the Homestead Act, it was … terrible, you couldn’t grow anything on it, it was filled with rocks, the soil was horrific, and the weather was bad,” Smith said.
Clint Smith talks with Linda Norris after receiving the Stowe Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice during the Big Tent Jubilee at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.Īsked about the importance of humbling ourselves in order to understand that there is not one single story, Smith said we must accept that different parts of our American history are both understood and experienced in different ways by different people without lending legitimacy to a set of ideas that are demonstrated to be empirically incorrect. “We have to shine a bright light on those that have stained our past, and … lift up those who have made us see it, including people like Harriet Beecher Stowe who helped to change the world and people like tonight’s honoree,” Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said during Wednesday’s celebration.ĭr. The book illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view in places where the history of enslaved men, women, and children were imprinted. Using scholarly research and stories of people living today, Smith’s book talks about the legacy and history of slavery throughout the United States. The Stowe Prize is awarded biennially “to honor the work of a contemporary writer who, like Harriet Beecher Stowe, inspires readers through their words to work for social justice and positive change,” according to the center’s website.
1 New York Times best selling book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America.” The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center held its first back-in-person Big Tent Jubilee fundraiser since the COVID-19 pandemic to celebrate this year’s Stowe Prize winner, Dr.
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