"Life at the South; or, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" as It Is Life at the South; or, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" As It Is (also known by its shorter title of Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is) is an 1852 plantation fiction novel written by William L.G. Smith. ""Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is"" is an example of the anti-Tom or pro-slavery plantation literature genre, novels that were produced following the publication of the bestselling ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Critics felt Stowe's work inaccurately depicted or otherwise exaggerated the evils of slaveholding. Smith's novel follows the general pattern"
"Uncle Tom's Cabin (song) ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" is a song by American band Warrant. It was released in April 1991 as the third single from Warrant's second album ""Cherry Pie"". The song charted at #78 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In Australia, the single peaked at #85 on the ARIA singles chart in May 1991. A music video was made for the song, and later the song was re-visited by the band in 1999 on their ""Greatest & Latest"" album. According to frontman Jani Lane, the original working title for the song"
"Tom's Cabin"". Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and"
"in 1860. He died in West Farms, New York, on April 11, 1874. Charles W. Taylor Charles Western Taylor ( - April 11, 1874), often billed as C. W. Taylor, was a well-known actor and dramatist in the United States in the mid-19th century. He is best known today, though only as a footnote, for writing one of the first stage adaptations of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Taylor was born in Walsall, England, about 1800 and first appeared on stage in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1819. He soon after debuted in New York in the ""Forest Rose"". He long acted in parts"
"Charles Beecher Charles Beecher (October 1, 1815 – April 21, 1900) was an American minister, composer of religious hymns and a prolific author. Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of Lyman Beecher, an abolitionist Congregationalist preacher from Boston and Roxana Foote Beecher. He was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the famous author of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", and the brother of renowned Congregationalist minister, Henry Ward Beecher. He also had another prominent and activist sister, Catharine Beecher. He attended Boston Latin School and Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834, and then attended Lane"
"Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She"
"Charles W. Taylor Charles Western Taylor ( - April 11, 1874), often billed as C. W. Taylor, was a well-known actor and dramatist in the United States in the mid-19th century. He is best known today, though only as a footnote, for writing one of the first stage adaptations of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Taylor was born in Walsall, England, about 1800 and first appeared on stage in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1819. He soon after debuted in New York in the ""Forest Rose"". He long acted in parts at the National Theatre on Chatham Street in New York. He also acted"
"When Uncle Tom's Cabin was first performed in Pittsburgh, on November 17, 1853, the musical numbers included ""Old Folks at Home."" A little over a hundred years later the Beatles performed the song in Hamburg and also recorded it. Irving Berlin's first big hit song, Alexander's Ragtime Band, published in 1911, quoted the melody, and contained the line: And if you want to hear The Swanee River Played in ragtime Mr. Berlin displayed a portrait of Mr. Foster in his office. In his score for the all black musical film Hallelujah, in 1929, he paid homage to Foster with the"
"was set in Louisiana). Many fans have speculated that the lyrics could relate to the murders of civil rights activists at the hands of racist police officers that occurred in the U.S. during the 1960s, an example being the ""Mississippi Burning"" events, but things remain ambiguous. Uncle Tom's Cabin (song) ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" is a song by American band Warrant. It was released in April 1991 as the third single from Warrant's second album ""Cherry Pie"". The song charted at #78 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In Australia, the single peaked at"
"other works include a dramatization of Ann S. Stephens' novel ""The Old Homestead"". He retired from the stage in 1867. Aiken's original manuscripts for ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" were passed down through the family along with other memorabilia from Howard's company. The family placed the collection at the Harry Ransom Center in 1963. George Aiken (playwright) George L. Aiken (December 19, 1830April 27, 1876) was a nineteenth-century American playwright and actor who is 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"
"Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Hartford, Connecticut) The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 73 Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut that was once the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Stowe lived in this house for the last 23 years of her life. It was her family's second home in Hartford. The 5,000 sq ft (460 m) cottage-style house is located adjacent to the Mark Twain House and is open to the public. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and declared a National"
"Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston (sometimes shortened to simply Uncle Robin's Cabin) is an 1853 novel written by J.W. Page and released by J. W. Randolph Publishers of Richmond, Virginia. ""Uncle Robin"" is one of several examples of the pro-slavery anti-Tom or plantation literature genre that emerged in the Southern United States. They were written in response to the publication of the bestselling abolitionist novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", released in book form in 1852, and were read both in"
"in the vault were all moved together to the Mount Hope Cemetery. A cenotaph was later erected for Susanna Haswell Rowson and her brothers Robert and John Montresor Haswell at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, where she is memorialized as the author of ""Charlotte Temple"". Susanna Rowson Susanna Rowson, née Haswell (1762 – 2 March 1824) was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, and educator. Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel ""Charlotte Temple"", the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" was published in 1852. Susanna"
"Newman Beecher was born in New York City on January 22, 1904, to Leonard and Isabel Beecher. He was a descendent of the New England literary and abolitionist Beechers that included Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher. His father was a steel industry executive. In 1907, Beecher's father was transferred to Birmingham, Alabama, to work for the United States Steel Corporation and Beecher spent the rest of his childhood in the American South. Beecher's family intended their son to become an executive like his father. After graduating from public high school"
"glass window"", created by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Brunswick, Maine, is where Stowe lived when she wrote ""Uncle Tom's Cabin."" Her husband was teaching theology at nearby Bowdoin College, and she regularly invited students from the college and friends to read and discuss the chapters before publication. Future Civil War general, and later Governor, Joshua Chamberlain was then a student at the college and later described the setting. ""On these occasions,"" Chamberlain noted, ""a chosen circle of friends, mostly young, were favored with the freedom of her house, the rallying point being, however, the reading"
"George Aiken (playwright) George L. Aiken (December 19, 1830April 27, 1876) was a nineteenth-century American playwright and actor who is 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. He became an actor in the troupe of his cousin, George C. Howard. In 1852, shortly after the publication of Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", Aiken wrote his stage adaptation. It was performed by Howard's company, with Aiken playing the hero, George Harris. The play become a spectacular success. His"
"survived by her son Guy Snowden Miller, her sister, Dorothy Shidler grandson, Gene and granddaughter, Kerry. Elizabeth Beecher Elizabeth Beecher is an American screenwriter best known for her work on western-themed movies and television shows in the 1940s and 1950s. Beecher was born on February 19, 1898 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and is a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1920 with majors in English and History. Beecher worked as a news reporter and writer for the Syracuse Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York American. She moved"
"Elizabeth Beecher Elizabeth Beecher is an American screenwriter best known for her work on western-themed movies and television shows in the 1940s and 1950s. Beecher was born on February 19, 1898 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and is a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1920 with majors in English and History. Beecher worked as a news reporter and writer for the Syracuse Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York American. She moved to Hollywood in 1937 where she took up work as a freelance writer. She began writing"
"old and rare books. Offstage Le Moyne was also known as a painter in the medium of watercolor. William J. Lemoyne died after several years of declining health on November 6, 1905, at a friend's residence in Inwood-on-the-Hudson (now Inwood), a neighborhood on the northern shore of Manhattan Island. William J. Le Moyne William J. Le Moyne (1831–1905) was an American actor who is credited with playing Deacon Perry in the first stage adaption of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". William J. Le Moyne (sometimes spelled Lemoyne or LeMoyne) was born on April 29, 1831, in Boston,"
"Grace Duffie Boylan Grace Duffie Boylan (February 9, 1861 - March 24, 1935) was an American writer. She wrote many children’s books, often dealing with diverse races and cultures, like ""Uncle Tom’s Cabin"" (not to be confounded with the same title by Harriet Beecher Stowe). Other titles include: ""Young Folks"", ""Our Little Eskimo Kiddies: Kids of Many Colors"", ""Yama Yama Land"", and ""Our Little Cuban Kiddies"". Her ""Thy Son Liveth: Messages From A Soldier To His Mother"" appeared in 1918 anonymously. It is her account (the following editions were published under her name) of what her son communicated to her"
"include the affectionate, dark-skinned ""mammy""; the ""pickaninny"" stereotype of black children; and the ""Uncle Tom"", or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a ""vital antislavery tool."" Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response to the passage, in 1850, of the second Fugitive Slave Act. Much of the book was composed in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, taught at his"
"Susanna Rowson Susanna Rowson, née Haswell (1762 – 2 March 1824) was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, and educator. Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel ""Charlotte Temple"", the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" was published in 1852. Susanna Haswell was born in 1762 in Portsmouth, England to Royal Navy Lieutenant William Haswell and his first wife, Susanna Musgrave, who died within days of Susanna's birth. While stationed in Boston her father remarried to Rachel Woodward and started a second family, and after his ship returned to"
"toured for a while with Howard and his sister as L. Fox, playing minor dramatic and comedic roles. He left their company in 1850 to try his hand as a low comedian at the Bowery’s National Theatre on Chatham Street. There he finally found his niche, becoming a popular headliner over the following seven years. For the remainder of his career Fox would play at venues that catered primarily to working-class audiences. In 1853 Fox directed and performed in the dramatization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous anti-slavery novel ""Uncle Tom’s Cabin"", written by his cousin George Aiken and performed the"
"in Foster's work of his own childhood experiences of losing his home as a result of financial hardships. The creation of the song ""My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!"" established a decisive moment within Stephen Foster's career in regard to his personal beliefs on the institution of slavery and is an example of the common theme of the loss of home, which is prevalent throughout Foster's work. In March 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared in bookstores in Foster's hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The novel, written about the plight of a slave in Kentucky, had a profound"
"herself had endured as a slave. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the abolitionist book ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Begun as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, the book focused public interest on the issue of slavery, and was deeply controversial for its strong anti-slavery stance at the time it was written. In writing the book, Stowe drew on her personal experience: she was familiar with slavery, the antislavery movement, and the Underground Railroad because Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state. ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" was a best-seller,"
"for many years in Albany, New York, and also served as musical director of the Bowery Theatre in New York City under the direction of Thomas Hamblin. Taylor wrote the first produced non-comedic stage adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" in the United States. It debuted on 23 August 1852, with Taylor playing Uncle Tom, but only ran for 11 nights after little success. Taylor's abbreviated play omitted key characters and had a happy ending where Tom gained his freedom. His other stage adaptations included a version of the 1854 bestseller ""Hot Corn"". Taylor retired from the stage"
"Uncle Tom's Bungalow Uncle Tom's Bungalow is an American ""Merrie Melodies"" animated cartoon directed by Tex Avery, and released to theatres on June 5, 1937 by Warner Bros. The short cartoon is a parody of the 1852 novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" and of the ""plantation melodrama"" genre of the 1930s. It contains many stereotypical portrayals of black characters. The cartoon plays off Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel in that it portrays Uncle Tom as an old man, and wooden shacks and cotton fields pervade the scenery. Director Tex Avery adds his own sense of humor and ""trickster"" animation, giving the classic"
"was a one-hour play by C.W. Taylor at Purdy's National Theater (New York City); it ran for about ten performances in August–September 1852 sharing a bill with a blackface burlesque featuring T.D. Rice. Rice, famous in the 1830s for his comic and clearly racist blackface character Jim Crow, later became the most celebrated actor to play the title role of Tom; when Rice opened in H.E. Stevens play of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" in January 1854 at New York's Bowery Theatre, the ""Spirit of the Times<nowiki>'</nowiki>"" reviewer described him as ""decidedly the best personator of negro character who has appeared in"
"alma mater, Bowdoin College. Stowe was partly inspired to create ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" by the slave narrative ""The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself"" (1849). Henson, a formerly enslaved black man, had lived and worked on a tobacco plantation in North Bethesda, Maryland, owned by Isaac Riley. Henson escaped slavery in 1830 by fleeing to the Province of Upper Canada (now Ontario), where he helped other fugitive slaves settle and become self-sufficient, and where he wrote his memoirs. Stowe acknowledged in 1853 that Henson's writings inspired ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". When"
"Catharine Beecher Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education. Beecher was born September 6, 1800, in East Hampton, New York, the daughter of outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxanna (Foote) Beecher. She was the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th century abolitionist and writer most famous for her groundbreaking novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", and of clergymen Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher. Beecher was educated"
"Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio) The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic home in Ohio which was once the residence of influential antislavery author Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Rev. Lyman Beecher accepted a job at Lane Theological Seminary in the Walnut Hills area of Cincinnati, founded in 1830. Rev. Beecher was a Congregationalist minister. He had dreamed of moving west to promote his brand of Christianity as early as 1830, when he wrote to his daughter Catharine: ""I have thought seriously of going over to Cincinnati, the London of the West, to spend the"
"Aunt Phillis's Cabin Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. It was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia in 1852 as a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", published earlier that year. The novel sold 20,000–30,000 copies, making it a strong commercial success and bestseller. Based on her growing up in Warrenton, Virginia of an elite planter family, Eastman portrays plantation owners and slaves as mutually respectful, kind, and happy beings. Published in 1852,"
"William Gilmore Simms William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century, with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced. He is still known among literary scholars as a major force in antebellum Southern literature. He is also remembered for his strong support of slavery and for his opposition to ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", in response to which he wrote reviews and a pro-slavery novel. Simms was born on April 17, 1806, in Charleston, South Carolina,"