Uncle Tom\'s cabin

See also: Uncle Tom's cabin (homonymy)

Uncle Tom's cabin ( Uncle Tom' S Cabin ) is a novel of the writer American Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published initially in the form of serial in 1852, it was worth immediate success with its author.

The characters are black slaves, with the the United States, and their owners.

The two main characters are “Uncle Tom”, slave in the Kentucky, and Eliza, slave of the same house as Tom.

Summary:

In XIX^e century, in Kentucky, State Southerner, Mr. Shelby, rich grower, and his wife, treat their slaves with kindness. Following money worries, the couple is constrained to separate from the Uncle Tom, their slave more devoted, and of a young boy, Henri. The road of the Uncle Tom crosses that of the young girl Evangeline Saint-Clare who incites her father to buy it. But after a short stay among its new owners, it is sold once again. Begin a series of adventures then… The characters are generally constrained to flee to reach the free ground. Eliza, her husband and his son flee in Canada and fall on the mother from Eliza and the sister from George who are also in escape. They emigrate in Africa to live with other Noirs.

Adaptations

Cinema

Uncle Tom' S dumb Cabin realized by J. Stuart Blackton in 1910 with Clara Kimball Young, Mary Fuller, Charles Kent, Carlyle Blackwell, Marie Eline
Uncle Tom' S dumb Cabin realized by Sidney Olcott in 1913, with Miriam Cooper
Uncle Tom' S dumb Cabin realized by Otis Turner in 1913, with Margarita Fischer
Uncle Tom' S dumb Cabin realized by William Robert Daly in 1914 with Paul Scardon
Uncle Tom' S dumb Cabin realized by J. Searle Dawley in 1918
Uncle Tom' S dumb Cabin carried out by Harry A. Pollard in 1927 with Stymie Beard, Raymond Massey
Uncle Tom's cabin (Onkel Toms Hut) realized by Géza von Radványi and left in 1965, with Mylène Demongeot, O.W. Fischer, Herbert Lom

Television

Uncle Tom' S Cabin telefilm carried out by Stan Lathan in 1987

External bonds

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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