Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity, " as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...

Details the life and achievements of abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe whose book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is said to have started the Civil War.

George L. Aiken's 1852 dramatization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's cabin. Issued for the 2011 Harriet Beecher Stowe bicentennial, this updated DVD puts the novel and play of Uncle Tom's Cabin into its proper literary, theatrical and societal contexts. Teachers, students, American history buffs and church study groups alike will benefit from this comprehensive program, containing two different staged versions of the play and a 138 page...

Includes material on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin, the Battle hymn of the Republic, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Frederick L. Olmstead; Mary Chesnut, John S. Mosby, Robert E. Lee, Alexander H. Stephens, Sidney Lanier, Albion W. Tourgee, George W. Cable, Kate Chopin, Thomas Nelson Page, Ambrose Bierce, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, among others.