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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.Published in two volumes 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 [American] Civil War".
The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved is an American temperance play first performed on February 12, 1844. [1][2] A drama in five acts, it was perhaps the most popular play produced in the United States until the dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin [3] premiered in 1853. In New York City, P.T. Barnum presented it at his American Museum in a run of ...
The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. [ 2 ] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Both were anti-slavery works.
George Aiken (playwright) George L. Aiken (December 19, 1830 – April 27, 1876) was a 19th-century American playwright and actor 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 turned to theatre.
Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe 's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. [1] The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking literary attack against the dehumanization of slaves. Tom is a deeply religious Christian preacher to his fellow slaves who uses nonresistance, but who is willingly flogged to death ...
A Cabana do Pai Tomás was a 1969-70 Brazilian television serial adaptation of the Harriet Beecher Stowe story. A 1971 Italian pseudo-documentary film called Goodbye Uncle Tom recreated historical events from the slave era. It was generally thought at the time to be exploitive and racist.
In 1852 Howard hired Caroline's cousin George L. Aiken to adapt for the stage Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The play debuted on September 27, 1852, at Peale’s Museum in Troy, New York, with a cast largely made up of family and friends of Howard's that included his four-year-old daughter, Cordelia. The play was ...
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). First published in 1853 by Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, the book also provides insights into Stowe's own views ...