Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Alternative Title: Life among the Lowly

    Author: George L. Aiken

    First Performance: 1852, Troy, NY

    Published: 1868?

    Genre: Drama in 6 acts

    Setting: Various locations in rural America and New Orleans, mid-19th c.

    Cast: 20m, 7f, 1 child (m)

George Harris, a black slave, decides that he will seek freedom by escaping to Canada. When his wife Eliza learns that she and her young son are to be sold, they too plan to run away, even though it means crossing an icy river and leaving behind the lovable Uncle Tom. Uncle Tom is bought by a plantation owner St Clare, whose daughter Eva Tom had saved. Eva is brought up with a little black girl called Topsy, who, knowing nothing of her background, thinks she just ‘growed’. St Clare is a benevolent master, who...

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