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Uncle Tom's Cabin (song) "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a song by American band Warrant. It was released in April 1991 as the third single from Warrant's second album "Cherry Pie". The song charted at #78 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In Australia, the single peaked at #85 on the ARIA singles chart in May 1991. A music video was made for the song, and later the song was re-visited by the band in 1999 on their "Greatest & Latest" album. According to frontman Jani Lane, the original working title for the song
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (song) "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a song by American band Warrant. It was released in April 1991 as the third single from Warrant's second album "Cherry Pie". The song charted at #78 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In Australia, the single peaked at #85 on the ARIA singles chart in May 1991. A music video was made for the song, and later the song was re-visited by the band in 1999 on their "Greatest & Latest" album. According to frontman Jani Lane, the original working title for the song
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was set in Louisiana). Many fans have speculated that the lyrics could relate to the murders of civil rights activists at the hands of racist police officers that occurred in the U.S. during the 1960s, an example being the "Mississippi Burning" events, but things remain ambiguous. Uncle Tom's Cabin (song) "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a song by American band Warrant. It was released in April 1991 as the third single from Warrant's second album "Cherry Pie". The song charted at #78 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In Australia, the single peaked at
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Tom Fletcher (vaudeville) Tom Fletcher (May 16, 1873 – October 13, 1954) was an African-American vaudeville entertainer, actor, and writer. He was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and started a career on the stage after performing in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in his teens. He sang in local talent contests before touring with minstrel shows, and by 1900 was performing regularly in vaudeville with Al Bailey as "Bailey and Fletcher, the Minstrel Boys". With Bailey, he appeared in films made in New York in the early 1900s by Edwin S. Porter. In 1908, he replaced the group's founder Ernest Hogan as a
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ob anoder color." Once Barnum lost Jim Sanford, who did most of his minstrel shows, Barnum took that role so he would not disappoint his audience. He sang "Such a Gittin' Up Stairs", which was a song mainly used in minstrel shows. The Freeze Brothers, Larry and Billy, also performed at the Barnum and Bailey circus concerts as blackface tambourine spinners.Promotion of minstrel shows led to Barnum's sponsorship in 1853 of H.J. Conway's politically watered-down stage version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; the play, at Barnum's American Museum, gave the story a happy ending, with Tom and other
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of the early sound cartoon series entitled "Aesop's Sound Fables." However, although the film is part of the series, it is not based on an Aesop fable. The film begins on a slave ship which comically expands and shrinks like an accordion. On the boat, a set of four animals (one with a guitar) sings a song. Once they arrive, Uncle Tom starts to play a recorder outside his cabin. This makes "Popsy" (as her uncle calls her) descend onto the cabin. Upon arrival, Uncle Tom asks where her friend, Little Eva, is. Just then, she descends onto the cabin.
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the North and the South. Such novels contributed to the national discussions about slavery and were part of the rising sectional tensions. Much like other novels of the genre, "Uncle Robin" serves as an antithesis to "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It portrays planters as benign and helpful to their slaves, with the villains portrayed as the abolitionists who stir up trouble. The novel features two black slaves from Virginia - Uncle Robin (the loyal slave), and Uncle Tom (the disloyal slave, and a reference to the main character of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"). Whereas Tom is convinced to run away from his
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bestselling "Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is" (1852). As another example, Chapter VII of "Uncle Robin" - entitled "Death in a Cabin" - strongly resembles a similar chapter in the 1852 anti-Tom novel: "Frank Freeman's Barber Shop" by Rev. Baynard Rush Hall. He features the death of a slave named Dinah, who is a redeemed Christian, as do Eastman and Page. J.W. Randolph Publishers issued additional anti-Tom novels before the Civil War, among them the satirical "White Acre vs. Black Acre" (1856) by William M. Burwell. Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One
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Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston (sometimes shortened to simply Uncle Robin's Cabin) is an 1853 novel written by J.W. Page and released by J. W. Randolph Publishers of Richmond, Virginia. "Uncle Robin" is one of several examples of the pro-slavery anti-Tom or plantation literature genre that emerged in the Southern United States. They were written in response to the publication of the bestselling abolitionist novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", released in book form in 1852, and were read both in
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stories "Uncle Tom's Children" (1938), suggest the inspiration Stowe's work provided Wright in his own books. Both "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Uncle Tom's Children" exploit the term "Uncle Tom", attacking an African American who seems to act in a subservient manner toward white people. However, while these two titles are similar and contain similar themes, Wright's "Native Son" can also be considered reactionary against "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Bigger Thomas is the antithesis of Uncle Tom. Bigger is fearful of and angry toward white society. He also lacks the religious background and Christian faith that Uncle Tom possessed. This contrast between
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and mistreated in Buffalo, Illinois after attempting to return home, Tom finally ends up in Canada. Erskine is waiting there to "rescue" Tom from his freedom and to take him back to "good old Virginia". Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as It Is Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is (also known by its shorter title of Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is) is an 1852 plantation fiction novel written by William L.G. Smith. "Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is" is an example of the anti-Tom or pro-slavery plantation literature genre, novels that
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of most anti-Tom novels: a story of loyal slaves convinced to leave their benign masters by abolitionists who did not really care about their welfare. Like several of the genre, Smith also references "Uncle Tom's Cabin" throughout, both in title and in plot. Other anti-Tom novels followed similar strategies, such as "Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston" (1853). Smith's novel features a dedication to the southern American statesman Henry Clay from Kentucky, as an advocate of the American Colonization Society, which promoted resettlement of free blacks from the United States to Africa. Clay
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin was a 1918 American silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley, produced by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players-Lasky name. The film is based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and George Aiken's eponymous play. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" starred Marguerite Clark, who portrayed both Topsy and Little Eva. It is now considered to be a lost film. As described in a film magazine, Uncle Tom (Losee) is on his way to the slave market. Eva St. Clair (Clark) and her father are
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the time but now largely forgotten, offers a defense of slavery as seen through the eyes of a northern woman—the daughter of an abolitionist, no less—who marries a southern slave owner. In the decade between the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the start of the American Civil War, between twenty and thirty anti-Tom books were published. Among these novels are two books titled "Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is" (one by W. L. Smith and the other by C. H. Wiley) and a book by John Pendleton Kennedy. More than half of these anti-Tom books were written by white
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the white man", and the resulting derogatory term "Uncle Tom", resulted from staged "Tom Shows", which replaced Tom's grim death with an upbeat ending where Tom causes his oppressors to see the error of their ways, and they all reconcile happily. Stowe had no control over these shows and their alteration of her story. These negative associations have to some extent obscured the historical impact of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a "vital antislavery tool". James Baldwin, in a 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel", called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" a "very bad novel" ... "ruined by its "self-righteous, virtuous sentimentality", and stated
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creating their own "Tom Show" and 1938's "Everybody Sing" (which features Judy Garland in blackface). But for several decades after the end of the silent film era, the subject matter of Stowe's novel was judged too sensitive for further film interpretation. In 1946, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer considered filming the story, but ceased production after protests led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 film production, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Slavery Days", was based largely off of the theatrical productions of the same story common during that time. The movie lived up to racial stereotypes in
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the only eyewitness account from a black insider of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theatrical players, personalities and pioneers," including Hogan and Scott Joplin, and has been used as a source by many historians of musical theatre. Fletcher died in New York in 1954, aged 81. Tom Fletcher (vaudeville) Tom Fletcher (May 16, 1873 – October 13, 1954) was an African-American vaudeville entertainer, actor, and writer. He was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and started a career on the stage after performing in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in his teens. He sang in local talent contests before touring with minstrel shows,
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for at least 80 years. These representations had a lasting cultural impact and influenced the pejorative nature of the term "Uncle Tom" in later popular use. Although not all minstrel depictions of Uncle Tom were negative, the dominant version developed into a stock character very different from Stowe's hero. Stowe's Uncle Tom was a muscular and virile man who refused to obey when ordered to beat other slaves; the stock character of minstrel shows became a shuffling asexual individual with a receding hairline and graying hair. To Jo-Ann Morgan, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture", these shifting representations
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Mighty Mouse cartoons produced by Paul Terry; "Uncle Tom's Cabana" (1947), a six-minute cartoon directed by Tex Avery, and the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Southern Fried Rabbit" (1953), wherein Bugs disguises himself as Uncle Tom and sings "My Old Kentucky Home" in order to cross the Mason-Dixon line. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has influenced numerous movies, including "The Birth of a Nation". This controversial 1915 film set the dramatic climax in a slave cabin similar to that of Uncle Tom, where several white Southerners unite with their former enemy (Yankee soldiers) to defend, according to the film's caption, their "Aryan birthright." According
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The Planter's Northern Bride The Planter's Northern Bride is an 1854 novel written by Caroline Lee Hentz, in response to the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. Unlike other examples of anti-Tom literature (aka "plantation literature"), "The Planter's Northern Bride" does not portray white plantation owners behaving benignly toward their loyal black slaves - as had been the case in earlier novels such as "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" (1852) - nor is the title a pun on "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (as was the case with "Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One
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Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as It Is Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is (also known by its shorter title of Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is) is an 1852 plantation fiction novel written by William L.G. Smith. "Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is" is an example of the anti-Tom or pro-slavery plantation literature genre, novels that were produced following the publication of the bestselling "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Critics felt Stowe's work inaccurately depicted or otherwise exaggerated the evils of slaveholding. Smith's novel follows the general pattern
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because "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the best-selling novel in the world during the 19th century. As a result, the book (along with illustrations from the book and associated stage productions) was accused of playing a major role in permanently ingraining such stereotypes into the American psyche. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Black Power and Black Arts Movements attacked the novel, claiming that the character of Uncle Tom engaged in "race betrayal", and that Tom made slaves out to be worse than slave owners. Among the stereotypes of blacks in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" are the "happy darky" (in the lazy,
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Tom show Tom show is a general term for any play or musical based (often only loosely) on the 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel attempts to depict the harsh reality of slavery. Due to the weak copyright laws at the time, a number of unauthorized plays based on the novel were staged for decades, many of them mocking the novel's strong characters and social message, and leading to the pejorative term "Uncle Tom". Even though "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, far more Americans of that time saw the
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that person perceives their own lower-class status based on race. It is similarly used to negatively describe a person who betrays their own group by participating in its oppression, whether or not they do so willingly. The term has also, with more intended neutrality, been applied in psychology in the form "Uncle Tom syndrome", a term for the use of subservience, appeasement and passivity to cope with intimidation and threats. The popular negative connotations of "Uncle Tom" have largely been attributed to the numerous derivative works inspired by "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the decade after its release, rather than the
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"Tom shows" were so popular that there were even pro-slavery versions. Among the most popular was "Uncle Tom's Cabin as It Is: The Southern Uncle Tom", produced in 1852 at the Baltimore Museum. Lott mentions numerous "offshoots, parodies, thefts, and rebuttals" including a full-scale play by Christy's Minstrels and a parody by Conway himself called "Uncle Pat's Cabin", and records that the story in its many variants "dominated northern popular culture… for several years". According to Eric Lott, even those "Tom shows" which stayed relatively close to Stowe's novel played down the feminist aspects of the book and Stowe's criticisms
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the most-filmed story of the silent film era with at least nine known adaptations between 1903 – 1927. This popularity was due to the continuing popularity of both the book and "Tom shows", meaning audiences were already familiar with the characters and the plot, making it easier for the film to be understood without spoken words. A number of movies have utilized characters, plots, and themes from "Uncle Tom's Cabin", including "An Uncle Tom's Cabin Troupe" (1913); the Duncan Sisters' "Topsy and Eva" (1927); "Uncle Tom's Uncle," a 1926 Our Gang episode which has the kids
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who shared these advantages due to their light skin, including African-American painter Joshua Johnston. The North, particularly cities like Cincinnati with substantial black populations and strong abolitionist presences, was a more advantageous place for African-Americans to pursue fine arts professions. Robert Duncanson’s "Uncle Tom and Little Eva", painted in 1853, is housed at the Detroit Institute of Arts. This work demonstrates Duncanson's growth in his early years of landscape painting. The painting depicts a scene from Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin". The painting is a copy of an engraving from the novel's illustrations. While Stowe's novel has
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During his journey, while waiting for a Mississippi steamboat, Uncle Tom first meets little Eva, who with her father is also taking the boat south. Tom is at once attracted to the beautiful little girl, and she in turn talks to the kindly old darkey. While looking at the boats, the little one accidentally falls into the swiftly flowing river and escapes drowning only through the bravery of Uncle Tom. He of all the crowd has the courage to jump in and rescue the little girl. Eva's father to reward Tom for his bravery, buys him from Legree, and once
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) is a silent film directed by Harry A. Pollard and released by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written by Harriett Beecher Stowe and was the last silent film version. A copy is preserved at the Library of Congress. In this version of the film, all of the major slave roles, with the exception of Uncle Tom himself, were portrayed by white actors. Actress Mona Ray played the slave Topsy in blackface, while the slaves Eliza, George, Cassie and Harry were all presented as having
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very light skin coloring because of mixed-race heritage. This film was released on DVD in 1999 by Kino. Unbilled Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) is a silent film directed by Harry A. Pollard and released by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written by Harriett Beecher Stowe and was the last silent film version. A copy is preserved at the Library of Congress. In this version of the film, all of the major slave roles, with the exception of Uncle Tom himself, were portrayed by white actors. Actress Mona Ray
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previous versions. Fewer characters were portrayed in blackface (Topsy is an outstanding exception) and less of an emphasis was put on exotic slave customs. Still, the majority of the screen time is dedicated to the white actors. African American actor James B. Lowe played the character Uncle Tom, but was on screen for less than 9 minutes and speaks less than a dozen lines. Film adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin A number of film adaptations of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have been made over the years. Most of these movies were created during the silent film era (with "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Uncle Tom Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The term "Uncle Tom" is also used as a derogatory epithet for an exceedingly subservient person, particularly when that person is aware of their own lower-class status based on race. The use of the epithet is the result of later works derived from the original novel. At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851, Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for white audiences by portraying Tom as
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Uncle Tom syndrome Uncle Tom syndrome is a concept in psychology. It refers to a coping skill where individuals use passivity and submissiveness when confronted with a threat, leading to subservient behaviour and appeasement, while concealing their true thoughts and feelings. The term "Uncle Tom" comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", where the African American slave Tom is beaten to death by a cruel white master for refusing to betray the whereabouts of two other slaves. In the American racial context, "Uncle Tom" is a pejorative term for blacks that give up or
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Caboose Behind The Train"; and even hymns, "The Lily of the Valley". Fiddlin' John Carson's recording of "The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane" was one of the first commercial recordings by a rural white musician. Its popularity ensured that the industry would continue recording rural folk songs. The only known recording of banjo player Uncle John Scruggs was a newsreel film performance of this song. The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane "The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane" is a popular song written by Will S. Hays in 1871 for the minstrel trade. Written in
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never meant Uncle Tom to be a derided name, but the term as a pejorative has developed based on how later versions of the character, stripped of his strength, were depicted on stage. Claire Parfait, author of "The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002", opines that "the many alterations in retellings of the Uncle Tom story demonstrate an impulse to correct the retellers' perceptions of its flaws" and "the capacity of the novel to irritate and rankle, even a century and a half after its first publication". Uncle Tom Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's
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Insurrection", based on John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The influence of the "Tom shows" also carried over into the silent film era (with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" being the most-filmed story of that time period). This was due to the continuing popularity of both the book and "Tom shows," meaning audiences were already familiar with the characters and the plot, making it easier for the film to be understood without spoken words. Several of the early film versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin were essentially filmed versions of "Tom shows." These included: As cinema replaced vaudeville and other types of live
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carefree character of Sam); the light-skinned tragic mulatto as a sex object (in the characters of Eliza, Cassy, and Emmeline); the affectionate, dark-skinned female mammy (through several characters, including Mammy, a cook at the St. Clare plantation); the pickaninny stereotype of black children (in the character of Topsy); the Uncle Tom, an African American who is too eager to please white people. Stowe intended Tom to be a "noble hero" and a Christ-like figure who, like Jesus at his crucifixion, forgives the people responsible for his death. The false stereotype of Tom as a "subservient fool who bows down to
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Stowe's work became a best-seller, Henson republished his memoirs as "The Memoirs of Uncle Tom" and traveled on lecture tours extensively in the United States and Europe. Stowe's novel lent its name to Henson's home—Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site, near Dresden, Ontario, Canada—which since the 1940s has been a museum. The cabin where Henson lived while he was enslaved no longer exists, but a cabin on the Riley farm erroneously thought to be the Henson Cabin was purchased by the Montgomery County, Maryland, government in 2006. It is now a part of the National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home is an 1852 novel by Robert Criswell, combining elements of Anti-Tom literature and romantic fiction. The novel is one of several written in response to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which had been criticised by writers from both North and South for its allegedly exaggerated and/or inaccurate depiction of slavery. However, despite being written initially as a response to Stowe, Criswell's novel is a romance novel depicting love between a northern woman and a southern plantation owner. Slavery
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plantation by a group of abolitionists, Robin remains loyal to his master, and remains on the plantation. As the novel progresses, Uncle Robin is shown to have become a well-fed and prosperous slave by remaining loyal and obedient; he is looked after well by his master. Uncle Tom, abused by the abolitionists he fled with, has since died, together with several other slaves who escaped to the North and found more oppression under the abolitionists than on the plantation. The scene of death of a Christianized slave was frequently used in anti-Tom novels, a cliche found in Mary Henderson Eastman's
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My Old Kentucky Home "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" is an anti-slavery ballad originally written by Stephen Foster, (probably) composed in 1852. It was published in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York. Foster likely composed the song after having been inspired by the narrative of popular anti-slavery novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", while likely referencing imagery witnessed on his visits to the Bardstown, Kentucky farm called Federal Hill. In Foster's sketchbook, the song was originally entitled "Poor Uncle Tom, Good-Night!", but was altered by Foster as "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" Frederick Douglass, an
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going as far as to rape a white woman, is the opposite of the benevolent Uncle Tom, who is portrayed as angelic. The books are also similar for the reactions they stirred up among their readers. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was detested and banned throughout the South, while "The Clansman" was ranted against in Northern papers. Also like "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "The Clansman" reached its greatest audience not through its book form, which sold over 100,000 copies, but through the film that had an audience of millions. Thomas Dixon's novel did not have the immediate effect of causing the recreation of
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time an American company" released a dramatic film in three reels. Until then, full-length movies of the time were 15 minutes long and contained only one reel of film. The movie starred Florence Turner, Mary Fuller, Edwin R. Phillips, Flora Finch, Genevieve Tobin and Carlyle Blackwell, Sr. At least four more movie adaptations were created in the next two decades. The last silent film version was released in 1927. Directed by Harry A. Pollard (who played Uncle Tom in a 1913 release of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), this two-hour movie was more than a year in production and was the third
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Charles Jacobs Peterson (1852). The Planter's Northern Bride The Planter's Northern Bride is an 1854 novel written by Caroline Lee Hentz, in response to the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. Unlike other examples of anti-Tom literature (aka "plantation literature"), "The Planter's Northern Bride" does not portray white plantation owners behaving benignly toward their loyal black slaves - as had been the case in earlier novels such as "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" (1852) - nor is the title a pun on "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (as was the case with "Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia,
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however, Henson became synonymous with Uncle Tom. After Stowe's death her son and grandson claimed she and Henson had met before "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was written, but the chronology does not hold up to scrutiny and she probably drew material only from his published autobiography. In short terms, Uncle Tom is labeled to persons, similar to "snitch" or "betrayer", whose motive is driven by acceptance that doing slavery was just how the (antebellum) Southern society worked, whether the acceptance is spontaneous or coerced. The term "Uncle Tom" is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when
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Tom's Cabin" has been adapted several times as a film. Most of these movies were created during the silent film era ("Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the most-filmed book of that time period). Because of the continuing popularity of both the book and "Tom" shows, audiences were already familiar with the characters and the plot, making it easier for the film to be understood without spoken words. There has been no Hollywood treatment since the end of the silent era. The first film version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was one of the earliest full-length movies (although full-length at that time meant
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome
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women, with Simms commenting at one point about the "Seemingly poetic justice of having the Northern woman (Stowe) answered by a Southern woman." Even though "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, far more Americans of that time saw the story as a stage play or musical than read the book. Eric Lott, in his book "Uncle Tomitudes: Racial Melodrama and Modes of Production", estimates that at least three million people saw these plays, ten times the book's first-year sales. Given the lax copyright laws of the time, stage plays based on "Uncle Tom's Cabin"—"Tom shows"—began
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and controversial variants of the Tom Shows was Walt Disney's "Mickey's Mellerdrammer", a United Artists film released in 1933. The title is a corruption of "melodrama", thought to harken back to the earliest minstrel shows, as a film short based on a production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by the Disney characters. In that film, Mickey Mouse and friends stage their own production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Mickey Mouse was already black-colored, but the advertising poster for the film shows Mickey dressed in blackface with exaggerated, orange lips; bushy, white sidewhiskers made out of cotton; and his trademark white gloves. "Uncle
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the women's rights movement in the following decades. Stowe's puritanical religious beliefs show up in the novel's final, overarching theme—the exploration of the nature of Christianity and how she feels Christian theology is fundamentally incompatible with slavery. This theme is most evident when Tom urges St. Clare to "look away to Jesus" after the death of St. Clare's beloved daughter Eva. After Tom dies, George Shelby eulogizes Tom by saying, "What a thing it is to be a Christian." Because Christian themes play such a large role in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"—and because of Stowe's frequent use of direct authorial interjections
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Anti-Tom literature Anti-Tom literature refers to the 19th century pro-slavery novels and other literary works written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Also called plantation literature, these writings were generally written by authors from the Southern United States. Books in the genre attempted to show either that slavery was beneficial to African Americans or that the evils of slavery as depicted in Stowe's book were overblown and incorrect. First published in serialized form from 1851–52 (in the abolitionist journal "The National Era"), and in book form in 1852, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe quickly became
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northern woman — the daughter of an abolitionist — who marries a southern slave owner. As with other books in the genre, Hentz's novel tries to show that black people lacked the ability to function well without oversight by whites. Her novel also focused on the fear of a slave rebellion, especially if abolitionists did not stop stirring up trouble. Simms and Hentz's books were two of between 20 or 30 pro-slavery novels written in the decade after "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Another well-known author who published anti-Tom novels is John Pendleton Kennedy. Mary Henderson Eastman's "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" was one
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of freedom. It is a mercy to give him the guardianship and protection from mental death." The Uncle Tom stereotype presents black men who are not so much unintelligent, simple-minded, and subdued, but more so primarily interested in the welfare and advancement of white people, or persons over the interests of other black people. The term is sometimes interchanged with "sellout" or the more derisive "house Negro". The term derives from the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In modern slang, the female version of an Uncle Tom is called an Aunt Jemima. Many of these negative stereotypes spill over in news
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them the scene of Uncle Tom's death, but after Baldwin's essay it ceased being respectable to accept the melodrama of the Uncle Tom story. Uncle Tom became what critic Linda Williams describes as "an epithet of servility" and the novel's reputation plummeted until feminist critics led by Jane Tompkins reassessed the tale's female characters. According to Debra J. Rosenthal, in an introduction to a collection of critical appraisals for the "Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin", overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters
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Uncle Tom's Cabaña Uncle Tom's Cabaña is a 1947 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery. The short is a parody of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and is Avery's second parody of the novel, the first being "Uncle Tom's Bungalow" in 1937 while at Warner Bros. Cartoons. Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin. Also features Red from "Red Hot Riding Hood" as Little Eva. "Uncle Tom's Cabaña", along with "Half-Pint Pygmy", were banned from television airings in the United States due to ethnic stereotyping of
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and motivations. These are the more notable of the secondary and minor characters in "Uncle Tom's Cabin": "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is dominated by a single theme: the evil and immorality of slavery. While Stowe weaves other subthemes throughout her text, such as the moral authority of motherhood and the redeeming possibilities offered by Christianity, she emphasizes the connections between these and the horrors of slavery. Stowe sometimes changed the story's voice so she could give a "homily" on the destructive nature of slavery (such as when a white woman on the steamboat carrying Tom further south states, "The most dreadful
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copies within the first weeks of publication. "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" was released in 1852 – the same year that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" appeared in book form – by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia (better known as J. B. Lippincott & Co.) As a major publishing house, the company released other anti-Tom novels, including "" by Martha Haines Butt (1853), and "Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent" by Vidi (1853). Aunt Phillis's Cabin Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American
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his work. Although Duncanson’s son urged him to address contemporary racial concerns in his works, Duncanson wrote to his son, “I have no color on the brain; all I have on the brain is paint.” Some art historians, such as Joseph D. Ketner, believe that Duncanson intended to make an indictment of the institution of slavery by depicting this delicate yet profound scene from Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Other art historians, like Margaret Rose Vendryes, assert that "Uncle Tom and Little Eva" (1853) demonstrates Duncanson's desire to satisfy abolitionist patrons, and not necessarily his own views. Duncanson's success in the
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a Jesus-like figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because he refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who had escaped from slavery. Stowe reversed the gender conventions of slave narratives by juxtaposing Uncle Tom's passivity against the daring of three African American women who escape from slavery. The novel was both influential and commercially successful, published as a serial from 1851 to 1852 and as a book from 1852 onward. An estimated 500,000 copies had sold worldwide by 1853, including unauthorized reprints. Senator Charles Sumner credited "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the election of
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returning to their New Orleans home when Uncle Tom rescues Little Eva from drowning. Mr. St. Clair (Stanford) buys him and Uncle Tom becomes the delight of Little Eva. Eva's declining health concerns her parents and she finally dies. Shortly thereafter St. Clair is killed, and the St. Clair slaves, including Uncle Tom, are sold. Topsy (Clark), given to Eva's aunt, is retained and taken north. With one of Eva's blond curls as a talisman, Topsy loses her wild, impish ways and becomes a trusted servant of Aunt Ophelia. (Morrison). Part of the film were shot on location in Louisiana,
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Mickey Daniels imitates Douglas Fairbanks, Jack Davis imitates William S. Hart, Mary Kornman impersonates Mary Pickford, an unidentified kid impersonates Harold Lloyd, and Ernest Morrison imitates Uncle Tom (from the play "Uncle Tom's Cabin"). The Big Show (1923 film) The Big Show is the ninth "Our Gang" short subject comedy released. The "Our Gang" series (later known as "The Little Rascals") was created by Hal Roach in 1922, and continued production until 1944. After being chased away from the county fair, the gang decides to open their own junior version of the fair, complete with wild animal displays, rides, and
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to see which side will be the most prosperous. The novel was released in book form in 1856, and was printed by the same publishers of an earlier anti-Tom novel, "Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston" by J.W. Page (1853). White Acre vs. Black Acre White Acre vs. Black Acre is an 1856 plantation fiction novel written by William M. Burwell. "White Acre vs. Black Acre" is one of several pro-slavery novels published in the Southern United States in response to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852. Burwell's novel,
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an image of the Great Fire of Rome and holds his iconic, anachronistic fiddle. He plays an exotic tune: Cleopatra comes dancing out of her book, looking like an Egyptian tomb-painting. Alice skips over to "Uncle Tom's Cabin", summoning its title character: Uncle Tom sings Stephen Foster's "Old Black Joe" as well as "I've Got the South in my Soul," the other characters his chorus (Alice occasionally interjecting, "O Lord!") Snarling, Mr. Hyde peeps out from his book, meaning trouble as he clutches one of the skull-shaped book-ends that contain his volume: he snatches Alice as the song concludes; on
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was usually lost in the joyous, slapstick atmosphere of the piece. Characters such as Simon Legree sometimes disappeared, and the title was frequently changed to something more cheerful like "Happy Uncle Tom" or "Uncle Dad's Cabin". Uncle Tom himself was frequently portrayed as a harmless bootlicker to be ridiculed. Troupes known as "Tommer" companies specialized in such burlesques, and theatrical "Tom shows" integrated elements of the minstrel show and competed with it for a time. Minstrelsy's racism (and sexism) could be rather vicious. There were comic songs in which blacks were "roasted, fished for, smoked like tobacco, peeled like potatoes,
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a child. Now that their family is together again, they travel to France and eventually Liberia, the African nation created for former American slaves. George Shelby returns to the Kentucky farm and frees all his slaves. George tells them to remember Tom's sacrifice and his belief in the true meaning of Christianity. Uncle Tom, the title character, was initially seen as a noble, long-suffering Christian slave. In more recent years, however, his name has become an epithet directed towards African-Americans who are accused of selling out to whites. Stowe intended Tom to be a "noble hero" and praiseworthy person. Throughout
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and Uncle Remus offers him some food for his journey, taking him back to his cabin. Back at the cabin, Uncle Remus tells Johnny the traditional African-American folktale, "Br'er Rabbit Earns a Dollar a Minute". In the story, Br'er Rabbit (Johnny Lee) attempts to run away from home only to change his mind after an encounter with Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear (James Baskett and Nick Stewart). Johnny takes the advice and changes his mind about leaving the plantation, letting Uncle Remus take him back to his mother. Johnny makes friends with Toby (Glenn Leedy), a young black boy who
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for the rest of his life. While G.B.'s family was poor, the Graysons were a fairly prominent family in the mountains along the northern Tennessee-North Carolina border. G.B.'s uncle, James Grayson (1833–1901), was a Union Army officer who helped organize an anti-Confederate uprising in Carter County, Tennessee at the outbreak of the American Civil War and later aided in the capture of legendary North Carolina fugitive Tom Dula. G.B. and Henry Whitter were the first to record the folk song Tom Dooley— based on the capture of Dula— in 1929. G.B. learned to play music at a young age, and
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variety entertainment, "Tom shows" slowly disappeared. J.C. Furnas, in his book "Goodbye to Uncle Tom", stated that he had seen a production in the 1920s in Ohio; the last touring group specializing in "Tomming" he could locate was apparently operating as late as the 1950s. Tom show Tom show is a general term for any play or musical based (often only loosely) on the 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel attempts to depict the harsh reality of slavery. Due to the weak copyright laws at the time, a number of unauthorized plays based on the
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appear ghastly white, With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all. And all the long night be heard skirling and groans. All along, down along, out along lea. From Tom Pearce's old mare in her rattling bones, With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all. Widecombe Fair (song) "Widecombe Fair", also called Tom Pearce (sometimes spelt "Tam Pierce"), is a well-known Devon folk song about a
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it on its head or attacked the author. Whatever the intended message, it was usually lost in the joyous, slapstick atmosphere of the piece. Characters such as Simon Legree sometimes disappeared, and the title was frequently changed to something more cheerful like "Happy Uncle Tom" or "Uncle Dad's Cabin". Uncle Tom himself was frequently portrayed as a harmless bootlicker to be ridiculed. Troupes known as "Tommer"companies specialized in such burlesques, and theatrical "Tom shows" integrated elements of the minstrel show and competed with it for a time. New York City's importance as a theatrical center grew until it became the
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more Tom knows what it is to be treated kindly. He lives happily as little Eva's special bodyguard until the little one is seized with a sudden sickness and dies. She had become greatly attached to Uncle Tom, and the last act of her life was to present him with a little locket containing her picture. Once more Uncle Tom is sold and again falls into the hands of Simon Legree. He is taken to Legree's plantation in Mississippi, where he is overworked and ill-treated to the point of death. Just before he dies he presses to his lips the
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benefit for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam sang the part of the Godfather, and Tom Meighan of Kasabian sang the part of Aceface, and Tom Norris, London Symphony Orchestra Co-Principal Second Violin, played violin for the production. Daltrey contributed a handful of songs to the band's catalogue during their early career: Daltrey also wrote a song titled "Crossroads Now" for the Who which grew out of an onstage jam session in 1999 after the song "My Generation." Another Daltrey song, entitled "Certified Rose", was rehearsed by the Who shortly before the death of John Entwistle. The
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Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South is an 1853 plantation fiction novel by Martha Haines Butt. "Antifanaticism" is one of several examples of the plantation literature genre that appeared in reaction to the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which had been criticised as inaccurately depicting slaveholders and slavery in general. Authors from the Southern United States sought to rectify this through their own series of pro-slavery novels. Examples of these include: "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" (1852), "Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston" (1853) and
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board, Tom meets and befriends a young white girl named Eva. Eva's father Augustine St. Clare buys Tom from the slave trader and takes him with the family to their home in New Orleans. Tom and Eva begin to relate to one another because of the deep Christian faith they both share. During Eliza's escape, she meets up with her husband George Harris, who had run away previously. They decide to attempt to reach Canada. However, they are tracked by a slave hunter named Tom Loker. Eventually Loker and his men trap Eliza and her family, causing George to shoot
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include the affectionate, dark-skinned "mammy"; the "pickaninny" stereotype of black children; and the "Uncle Tom", or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool." Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response to the passage, in 1850, of the second Fugitive Slave Act. Much of the book was composed in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, taught at his
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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is the second popular novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was first published in two volumes by Phillips, Sampson and Company in 1856. Although it enjoyed better initial sales than her previous, and more famous, novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", it was ultimately less popular. "Dred" was of a more documentary nature than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and thus lacked a character like Uncle Tom to evoke strong emotion from readers. "Dred" is the story of Nina Gordon, an impetuous young heiress to a
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taking Emmeline with her. When Tom refuses to tell Legree where Cassy and Emmeline have gone, Legree orders his overseers to kill Tom. As Tom is dying, he forgives the overseers who savagely beat him. Humbled by the character of the man they have killed, both men become Christians. Very shortly before Tom's death, George Shelby (Arthur Shelby's son) arrives to buy Tom's freedom but finds he is too late. On their boat ride to freedom, Cassy and Emmeline meet George Harris' sister and accompany her to Canada. Cassy discovers that Eliza is her long-lost daughter who was sold as
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was "I Know a Secret". Prior to the writing of the song "Cherry Pie", the album's title and first single was to have been "Uncle Tom's Cabin", a track which foreshadowed the kind of imaginative song writing which would later be more fully revealed on the "Dog Eat Dog" record. Although named after the classic novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the song tells the story of a witness to the involvement of local police in a double murder and appears at first to have nothing to do with slavery, racism, or the U.S. South (although the video for the song
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her in the cotton as she slowly died. Hanby also wrote the Christmas carol "Up on the House Top," and the Christian hymn "Who Is He In Yonder Stall?" As a result of his thematic emphasis, Hanby has been dubbed the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of song. Songs such as these and writings, such as those of Ohioan Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", sensitized northerners to the conditions of slavery and helped to initiate the anti-slavery movement. Hanby's home is now a historic landmark standing adjacent to the Otterbein University campus. Hanby's grave is in the nearby Otterbein Cemetery in
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both the same". Tom Jones performed it before Wales's rugby victory over England at Wembley Stadium in 1999. As of 2003, the Welsh Rugby Union played the song in Millennium Stadium before matches; the words to the song were shown on the big screens and the crowd sang along. Dafydd Iwan, former president of the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru, called for Welsh rugby supporters to stop singing Delilah at matches, asserting that the song "trivialise[s] the idea of murdering a woman". Jones dismissed Iwan's claims, stating: "I don’t think [singers] are really thinking about it … If it’s going
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character need not be the subject of the whole title in a strict grammatical sense: Uncle Tom is the title character of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Lee Marvin is often described as playing the title character in the film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", as his character (Liberty Valance) is named in the title, even though the subject of the title is the person who shot him. A title character may be the main antagonist, e.g. Sauron in "The Lord of the Rings" or Bram Stoker's "Dracula". In "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", the wizard is the title character,
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"The Frog Follies". In 1913, 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. 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
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singer to perform at the Academy Awards. As an actress, she worked with Nino Rota and Federico Fellini. She sang the title song, "Strange Love", for the 1968 film "Bandits in Milan". Her song "Oh My Love" (originally featured on the soundtrack of the film "Goodbye Uncle Tom") was featured on the soundtrack of the 2011 movie "Drive". In 1956 Ranieri married Italian film composer Riz Ortolani (composer of “More”). She died in Rome on 3 September 2018. Katyna Ranieri Caterina Ranieri (31 August 1925 – 3 September 2018), known professionally as Katyna Ranieri, was an Italian actress and singer.
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and Melville." This view remains the subject of dispute. Writing in 2001, legal scholar Richard Posner described "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as part of the mediocre list of canonical works that emerges when political criteria are imposed on literature. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has exerted an influence equaled by few other novels in history. Upon publication, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ignited a firestorm of protest from defenders of slavery (who created a number of books in response to the novel) while the book elicited praise from abolitionists. As a best-seller, the novel heavily influenced later protest literature. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" outraged people in
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other works include a dramatization of Ann S. Stephens' novel "The Old Homestead". He retired from the stage in 1867. Aiken's original manuscripts for "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were passed down through the family along with other memorabilia from Howard's company. The family placed the collection at the Harry Ransom Center in 1963. George Aiken (playwright) George L. Aiken (December 19, 1830April 27, 1876) was a nineteenth-century American playwright and actor who is best known for writing the most popular of the numerous stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Aiken was a writer of dime novels before he
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for America", and "Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson" political and social leaders, artists, musicians, reformers, scientists, artists, ministers, and self-styled religious prophets who shaped American history. In "Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America", he traces the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 best-seller Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the rise of Lincoln, the American Civil War, and worldwide events, including the end of serfdom in Russia, down to its influence on race relations and popular culture in the twentieth century. Reynolds’s wife, whose professional name is Suzanne Nalbantian, is a Professor of
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Uncle Tom Cobley The phrase Uncle Tom Cobley and all is used in British English as a humorous or whimsical way of saying "et al.", often to express exasperation at the large number of people in a list. The phrase comes from a Devon folk song "Widecombe Fair", collected by Sabine Baring-Gould. Its chorus ends with a long list of people: "Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all." The surname is spelt as "Cobleigh" in some references. Whether Tom Cobley, or the other characters from the song, ever existed
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Uncle Tom plays a song, which both Popsy and Little Eva dance to. However, the slave-keeper hears this and takes both Uncle Tom and Popsy as slaves, leaving Little Eva in tears. They are both taken to a slave auction, where they have to perform. The first one to perform is Uncle Tom, who falls over at the end of his performance, due to his lack of strength and malnutrition. In response, the keepers blow raspberries at him after the performance. The second to perform is Popsy, who comically treats the audition block as a xylophone. She is viewed more
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of the tom-tom player surrounded by flames), but it was renamed "Play blessures" (from a lyric on the song "Lavabo" ("Washbasin")) because the American band The Motels recorded an album with the same title at the same time. The 28th of March 2011 a show written by Pierre Mikaïloff and Arnaud Viviant premiered at the Théâtre Marigny of Paris, "[Re]Play Blessures", which recounted the birth of the album. Irène Jacob was the narrator, while the singers on the scene were: Alain Chamfort who sang "Chasseur d’ivoire" ("Ivory hunter"), Boris Bergman who sang "Junge Männer", Axel Bauer who sang "C’est comment
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had died earlier in 1852, the year the novel was published. Smith's novel begins on a plantation in Virginia, owned by the benevolent and kindly Mr. Erskine. Among his slaves is Uncle Tom (Smith's version of Stowe's character), who is convinced to run away by an abolitionist schoolteacher from the North. The teacher is portrayed as envious of the prosperity of Erskine and seeks to ruin him by convincing his slaves to desert the plantation. As Tom's journey continues, the man realizes that the abolitionists who are "helping" him wish to enslave him for their own ends. After being abused
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this ironically was an anti-Tom novel. Simon Legree is a cruel slave owner—a Northerner by birth—whose name has become synonymous with greed. He is arguably the novel's main antagonist. His goal is to demoralize Tom and break him of his religious faith; he eventually orders Tom whipped to death out of frustration for his slave's unbreakable belief in God. The novel reveals that, as a young man, he had abandoned his sickly mother for a life at sea and ignored her letter to see her one last time at her deathbed. He sexually exploits Cassy, who despises him, and later
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himself. The village has made the most of its link with the folk song. It now has a "Tom Cobley Cottage" and a "Tom Cobley Tavern". There also appears to have been a Bill Brewer who lived in nearby Sticklepath, and a Pearse family who ran a local mill; in Sticklepath there is the grave of a Tom Pearse who died in 1875. However, there remains some doubt as to whether this was the same Tom Pearse who features in the song since the earliest recorded Widecombe Fair was held in 1850. Early in the 20th century, the novelist Beatrice
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The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters is an 1852 novel written by Charles Jacobs Peterson under the pseudonym of J. Thornton Randolph. "The Cabin and Parlor" is an example of the pro-slavery plantation literature genre that emerged from the Southern United States in response to the abolitionist novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which had been published in book form in that year, and had been criticised in the Southern United States for exaggerating the workings of slaveholding. Whereas the majority of anti-Tom novels focussed on the evils
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any drama." The best-known "Tom Shows" were those of George Aiken and H.J. Conway. Aiken's original "Uncle Tom's Cabin" focused almost entirely on Little Eva (played by child star Cordelia Howard); a sequel, "The Death of Uncle Tom, or the Religion of the Lonely" told Tom's own story. The two were ultimately combined in an unprecedented evening-long six-act play. According to Lott, it is generally faithful to Stowe's novel, although it plays down the trickster characters of Sam and Andy and variously adds or expands the roles of some farcical white characters instead. It also focuses heavily on George Harris;
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the Peet Project were two of the qualifiers a year before with their entries "Father's Eyes" and "Kill Your Monster". Ádám Szabó was in the race in several occasions before: after a quick elimination in 2013, he came back in 2015, and placed second in the grand final with "Give Me Your Love". In 2017 he sang the song "Together", and this time he is back with his electro-rock formation called yesyes. The Matter (under the name Mushu) was a finalist in 2016 with "Uncle Tom", and would've take part in the 2018 selection as well, but withdrew due to
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is an open-air museum and African American history centre near Dresden, Ontario, Canada, that includes the home of Josiah Henson, a former slave, author, abolitionist, and minister, who, through his 1849 autobiography "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself", was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's title character in her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The complex is part of the original of land purchased in 1841 to establish the Dawn Settlement, a community for escaped slaves. The original Henson cabin
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in 1914, aged 68, and was interred in Evergreens Cemetery in the Actors' Fund Plot Effie Germon Mary Euphemia "Effie" Germon (June 13, 1845 – March 6, 1914) was an American stage actress of the late 19th century from Augusta, Georgia, a descendant of the Germons of Baltimore who were an old theatrical family. She excelled as a soubrette. One of six siblings born to actors Greenberry Carr "Greene" Germon and Jane (née Anderson) Germon, her father was the first to perform the role of Uncle Tom at the Troy Museum in the George Aiken adaptation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Effie Germon Mary Euphemia "Effie" Germon (June 13, 1845 – March 6, 1914) was an American stage actress of the late 19th century from Augusta, Georgia, a descendant of the Germons of Baltimore who were an old theatrical family. She excelled as a soubrette. One of six siblings born to actors Greenberry Carr "Greene" Germon and Jane (née Anderson) Germon, her father was the first to perform the role of Uncle Tom at the Troy Museum in the George Aiken adaptation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" produced by George C. Howard. Effie Germon had two brothers. Her mother, Jane, a cousin
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Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, which delves into the lives and motivations of the "Secret Six" who gave him a great deal of his support, and "Goodbye to Uncle Tom" examines how "Uncle Tom's Cabin," both as a novel and in its many stage adaptations, has shaped American attitudes towards African Americans and slavery. In addition to these books, he wrote several books dealing with the South Pacific, including a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as several novels. He is credited with uncovering the truth behind the Lillian Hellman short story, "Julia," later made into a movie starring
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Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent is an 1853 parody novel written by an unknown author credited as "Vidi". "Mr. Frank" is an example of the pro-slavery plantation literature genre that emerged from the Southern United States in response to the abolitionist novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852, which was criticised in the South for its negative portrayal of plantation life. However, whereas the majority of such anti-Tom novels were direct attacks on "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "Mr. Frank" instead chooses to parody the events of Stowe's novel rather than serve as an antithesis to her work.
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Little Eva. Marie Eline would also play this role in the five-reel World Film Corporation version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", released on August 10, 1914. The role of Eliza was played by Anna Rosemond, one of two leading ladies of the Thanhouser company in this era. Frank H. Crane, cast in the role of Tom, was a leading male actor of the company. Crane was also involved in the very beginnings of the Thanhouser Company and would later become a director at Thanhouser. Surviving film stills, from advertisements in "Moving Picture World", show Crane in blackface in order to portray
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