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| UNCLE TOMS CABIN Series "VALUING THE HUMAN ARTICLE" |
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Anti-Slavery 1850s Plate "Valuing the Human Article" Uncle Tom's Cabin
This plate depicts the opening scene of Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and is based on the illustration by George Cruikshank.
In this scene plantation owner, Arthur Shelby is entertaining Haley Graphite, the crude slave trader. Graphite gets Eliza's quadroon son, Harry, to perform various tasks, here the boy commences intoning a psalm-tune through his nose.
Graphite then asks Shelby to sell him Uncle Tom, Harry and Eliza. At first Shelby refuses, but later agrees to sell Uncle Tom and Eliza's son.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852 and has been credited with being one of the causes of the American Civil War. |
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