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Uncle Tom's Cabin ('14) [Reconstructed titles]

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       FOREWORD

This is a story of an exotic race, whose ancestors, born beneath a tropic sun, were brought to the New World by heartless traders,

 and sold into slavery.

2 Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, and the characters of Aunt Ophelia, Eliza, Marks the Lawyer, Topsy, Little Eva, and the im- mortal UNCLE TOM will

   live forever.

3 Many slaves ran away to escape unjust treatment

  by their masters.

4 George Shelby and his faithful servant,

   Uncle Tom.

5 Eliza and her baby son ... great favorites on the

    plantation.

6 Eliza's husband, George

 Harris, a Mulatto.

7 Haley, a notorious

 slave trader.

8 "Mr. Shelby, I want that boy Harry, and thet niggah Tom. I get 'em both or I forclose the mortgage. You just got until eight to-night to decide."

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 As George Harris bids 

farewell to Eliza, she tells

 him of Haley's demand 
    for their boy.

10 "Mr. Shelby will never sell our son ... he is not like my master."

11 "Good bye - when next you hear from me it will be as George Harris, the free man - not as George

 Harris the slave."

12 Shelby is forced to sell Uncle Tom and Little

      Harry.

13 "Massa Shelby done sold you, my lamb - but with the help of Him above, maybe I can save you."

14 George Harris prepares to escape to Canada, while his wife, Eliza, takes des- perate measures to save

     her child.

15 Eliza bids farewell to Uncle Tom and Chloe.

16 "I'll put the bloodhounds

   on her track ...
  I'll catch her."

17 On Eliza's trail.

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Tom Loker and

Marks the Lawyer.

19 The hazards of floating ice and a swift current does not deter this mother ... for freedom lies on

   the other side.

20 Phineas Fletcher, A Quaker, extends aid

    to Eliza.

21 Haley bitter and dis- grunted, returns to take Uncle Tom to NEW

    ORLEANS.

22 "When I'm a man, I'll buy you back Uncle Tom",... "Mr. Haley, there's not one in the world like Uncle Tom."

23 Master Shelby grieves for

   his Uncle Tom.

24 Haley seeks the help of

  Marks and Loker.

25 "I'll get Harris and the boy for you if I have to chase them all the

  way to Canada."

26 Marks and Loker hire a posse to hunt down the

    fugitives

27 George Harris and Eliza, his wife, are re-united.

28 Bound for New Orleans, Uncle Tom meets St. Clair and Little Eva.

29 Aunt Ophelia and

  Little Eva

30 Uncle Tom saves Little Eva from a watery grave.

31 St. Clair buys Uncle Tom

       for Eva.

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  TWO YEARS LATER

Uncle Tom tells Eva of

 the New Jerusalem

33 Topsy ... 'She wasn't born, she just growed'

34 Aunt Ophelia upbraids

Topsy for stealing.

35 "Topsy, I love you and if you love me, you will promise never to steal

       again."

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Spring brings sadness

into the St. Clair home.

37 Eva exacts a promise from her father to free

     Uncle Tom.

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 "In Heaven above,

where all is love, we'll meet to part no more."

39 Topsy's offering

40 While attempting to prevent a quarrel, St. Clair is accidentally

 stabbed to death.

41 On St. Clair's death, his slaves, including Uncle Tom are sold at auction

42 Simon Legree, a harsh slave owner, buys Uncle Tom and a young girl,

     Emmeline.

43 Up the river to Legree's

     plantation.

44 Cassy, a slave who is Legree's housekeeper

45 "God help the poor wretches he is bringing to this Hell on earth."

46 Legree warns the slaves not to try to escape.

47 "Tom, you nigger, St. Clair spoiled you, but I'll make better use of those muscles of yours."

48 Tom put to work in the fields with the other

      slaves.

49 "I hate religious niggers, damn you! Give that boy a hundred lashes, or I'll send you to that New Jerusalem you are always talking about."

50 Emmeline is made house- keeper, and Cassy is sent to work in the fields.

51 "Legree will never make that girl the thing he made me ... To-night we will find freedom, or a grave in the

   swamp."

52 That afternoon.

53 Cassy and Emmeline prepare to run away

54 Young Shelby, now grown to manhood, remembering his promise, seeks Uncle

         Tom.

55 "I am seeking an old negro by the name of

       Tom."

56 "Why, we heard Tom was sold to Simon Legree, who lives down on the Red River."

57 "Tell me where Cassy and Emmeline went, or I'll break every bone in

 your black body."

58 Young Shelby continues his search for Uncle Tom.

59 Sympathy for the poor old slave creates a desire for swift revenge in the heart of the boy whom Uncle Tom refused to

       whip.

60 In darkness and sorrow, Uncle Tom still has faith that God has not forsaken

         him.

61 "Young Massah George has come! The Lawd has given me the victory. Glory be to His name. I die content knowin' you all did not forget

  old Uncle Tom."

62 - by virtue of the power in me vested - all persons held as slaves shall be thenceforward and forever free - upon this act I invoke the considerate judgement of mankind and

the gracious favor of
    Almighty God.

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