Lucas was featured in the unfinished film, Lime Kiln Field Day, produced by the Biograph Company and Klaw and Erlanger. The footage of the unfinished film was assembled in 2014 by the Museum of Modern Art, which had rescued the film cans from a Biograph film storage vault in 1938. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914) In 1914, Lucas revived his role of Uncle Tom in William Robert Daly's film adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. He is generally credited as the first black man to portray Uncle Tom, a character that had typically been played by white actors in black face. The film was released on August 10, 1914, by the World Film Company. This silent film was shot on location in the South with scenes of its fields of cotton and Mississippi river boats. Its screening was accompanied by organs or other instruments at local theatres. It was an inductee to the 2012 National Film Registry list. Personal life Lucas was married no fewer than three times; his second wife was Carrie Melvin, whom he married in Boston, Massachusetts on August 11, 1886. Carrie Melvin Lucas was a violinist, coronetist, and actress. They had one daughter together, Marie Lucas (1891–1947). Marie went on to become a successful pianist, trombonist, arranger, and conductor. Sam and Carrie performed together in vaudeville, but they divorced in 1899. Marie and Sam later worked together. Death After completing Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lucas died in 1916 from pneumonia, after suffering from liver disease for many years. See also 1883 in music Bibliography Graham, Sandra Jean (2013). "The Songs of Sam Lucas", Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University. Graham, Sandra Jean (2018). Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry, pp. 171–175, 210–216, 233–248. University of Illinois Press, 2018. Graham, Sandra Jean (2018). "Composing in Black and White: Code-Switching in the Songs of Sam Lucas,” in Patricia Hall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship, pp. 559–92. Oxford University Press. Toll, Robert C. (1974). Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press. Watkins, Mel (1994). ''On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying—The Underground Tradition of African-American Humor that Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor. New York: Simon & Schuster. References Age controversies Year of birth uncertain 1916 deaths African-American male actors Blackface minstrel performers Blackface minstrel songwriters Deaths from pneumonia in the United States