Table of Contents:
  • Halfway between sermon and social theory: the mania for "Tom mania"
  • "There is no arguing with pictures": the Aiken/Howard Uncle Tom's cabin
  • "A play to which no apologist for slavery could object": the Conway/Kimball/Barnum Uncle Tom's cabin
  • "O' it was a sight worth seeing": Uncle Tom hits the road
  • Long live Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom's cabin in the twentieth century
  • Uncle Tom in middle age: from a stage tradition to the silver screen
  • Epilogue: the story that won't stay dead.