Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Quick Facts

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Color illustration from Uncle Tom's Cabin showing a slave auction scene, with a group of enslaved people on a platform and a trader examining a man for sale in front of a crowd.

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Illustration of Eliza carrying her son across icy stepping stones on the Ohio River at night, pursued by three men, from an 1870 theatrical poster for Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin that depicts Eva's death, c. 1870.

Topsy (left) and Little Eva, characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851–52); lithograph by Louisa Corbaux, 1852.

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