Table of Contents:
  • Topsy and the end man: blackface in Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Minstrel variations: uncle toms in the minstrel show
  • Copycat critics: the anti-tom novel and the fugitive slave
  • Minstrelsy, melodrama, and reform drama: Uncle Tom plays in New York
  • Uncle Tom in London: British dramatizations
  • Tom mania in Britain: the Stafford House address and "real uncle toms"
  • Foreign manners and memories: Tom mania and transatlantic literature
  • Answering the "answers": Tom mania and Stowe's Dred.