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2 unusual facts about Uncle Tom's Children


Uncle Tom's Children

The Harper Perennial edition of Wright's novel Black Boy, under the heading 'Books by Richard Wright', misprints "Uncle Tom's Children" as "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of short stories by African American author Richard Wright, also the author of Black Boy, Native Son, and The Outsider.


Acid Survivors Foundation

2011 was also the year that ASF’s Executive Director Monira Rahman was honored with the prestigious World's Children's Prize in recognition for her struggle for the children who have been the victims of acid attacks or petrol attacks leading to permanent and disfiguring scars.

America's Children's Museum on Wheels: StoryBus

Filled with a rotating collection of hands-on interactive exhibits, the StoryBus transports children inside the worlds of favorite children's stories, such as The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Armageddon's Children

A group of children, the Ghosts, hide out in the ruins of downtown Seattle.

He secretly sees Tessa, a girl from the nearby compound at Safeco Field, though they are forbidden to be together by compound law.

Angel Perez, who is pursued by the demon Findo Gask and his henchwoman Delloreen.

Arthur Edmund Carewe

Seen in many classic offerings such as Trilby (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927), The Cat and the Canary (1927), Doctor X (1932), and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), Carewe completed nearly 50 films, mostly during the silent film era.

Blue American

"Blue American" has a dark tone; in it, the protagonist seems to reflect over his life while referring to novels (such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin) and self-help books.

Britten's Children

Britten's Children is a scholarly 2006 book by John Bridcut that describes the English composer Benjamin Britten's relationship with several adolescent boys.

Carlos Sayadyan

Carlos was only 13 when he was awarded the first prize at an exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Soviet Armenia while still attending H. Kojoyan’s Children’s Fine Arts School.

Charles Jacobs Peterson

In 1852, the novel The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters was published by Peterson under the pseudonym J. Thornton Randolph, an early example of the Anti-Tom literature which arose in response to Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Chuck Knipp

He's also said that "many people thought that Harriet Beecher-Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was and still is perceived as racist, despite being the probable artistic genesis of emotional support against slavery in the 19th century."

E. W. Kemble

Kemble subsequently illustrated several other famous books, including Twain's Puddin' Head Wilson, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Washington Irving's Knickerbocker History of New York, and many of Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus stories.

Émile Bayard

At the end of the 19th century, with a growing interest in photography displacing documentary drawing, Bayard moved to illustrating novels, including Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, L'Immortel by Alphonse Daudet, "Robinson Crusoé by Daniel De Foë", and From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne.

George C. Howard

George C. Howard (1818–1887) was a Nova Scotian-born American actor and showman who is credited with staging the first theatrical production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Guido Verbeck

However, in Arkansas he was deeply moved by the lives of slaves in the southern plantations, and the teachings of H.W. Beecher, a preacher whose sister was Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Hitler's Children

Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang is a 1977 book about the West German militant left-wing group, the Red Army Faction (also known as The Baader-Meinhof Gang), by the British author Jillian Becker.

In Search of the Pope's Children

He then made the claim that 87% of Ireland's exports generated by multinational companies such as Microsoft, Apple Computer, Dell, Intel, and Google, implying that decisions made in New York boardrooms have a far greater effect on the Irish economy than decisions made in the Dáil.

Inertialess drive

Inertialessness, though not for faster-than-light travel, is discussed in Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah's Children, Isaac Asimov's short story The Billiard Ball, Larry Niven’s Known Space universe, Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, and

Ja'net Dubois

Dubois won an CableACE Award for her work on the TV movie Other Women's Children based on the novel by Perri Klass, and she also two Emmy Awards for her voiceover work on the animated program The PJs.

Little Eva: The Flower of the South

Little Eva is unique in being one of few known examples of children's literature that also contains elements of plantation literature, a pro-slavery literary genre that emerged in the Southern United States in reaction to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852.

Lotta Crabtree

Having made a name in California, in 1863 Lotta left to tour the east coast where she began acting in plays such as The Old Curiosity Shop, Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Nell and the Marchioness.

Maine in the American Civil War

Abraham Lincoln chose Maine's Hannibal Hamlin as his first Vice President, and said on meeting Brunswick novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), "so this is the little lady who made this big war".

Maurice Rapf

Rapf was a minority, a Jew, and an outspoken left-winger, and he himself feared that the film would inevitably be Uncle Tomish.

Nathaniel D. Mann

"Climb de Golden Fence : (oh my! wicked piccaninny)", lyrics by Hattie Starr, M. Witmark & Sons, 1895, interpolated into a production of C.W. Taylor's 1852 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

North Bethesda, Maryland

One of the Rileys' slaves, Josiah Henson, is thought by historians to be the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Paddy Brennan

From the later 1950s he also drew for girls' comics, including an adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin for Bunty in 1958, and "Sandra of the Secret Ballet" for Judy from 1960.

Pike's Opera House

The new management lowered the price of admission and catered to the popular tastes of New York's "west side": "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (in blackface) and Buffalo Bill were among the first season's attractions; theatrical productions were accompanied by "specialty acts".

PVR Pictures

In October 2012 the company acquired the Indian distribution rights for the film adaption of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children.

Riley-Bolten House

Henson worked on the plantation and his autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, was the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Saleem Sinai

Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

Saturday's Children

Warners originally cast Priscilla Lane in the lead but Garfield was sure that the Lane Sisters would somehow have to be written in as well.

Scott Grimando

Scott Grimando is an artist whose work includes the cover of Hannibal's Children.

Semi-Colon Club

Stowe's experiences in Cincinnati and her time in the club were major factors in her work Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Slovene fiction

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was translated twice in 1853, only one year after it was first published in America.

Small Voices: The Stories of Cambodia's Children

After Saigonell, the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and killed 1.7 Million people in a former high school also known as S21 that also included rape, torture and a living hell.

Socialist Patients' Collective

Book: Jillian Becker, Hitler's Children: Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang, HarperCollins Distribution Services; New edition (28 Jun 1978) ISBN 978-0-586-04665-4.

St. Clair Avenue

St. Clair Avenue takes its name from Augustine St. Clare, a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

State Express 555

The brand is cited in Salman Rushdie's post-colonial novel Midnight's Children, where it is, however, mis-attributed to the former British importer and manufacturer W.D. & H.O. Wills: Rushdie later explains this as symptomatic of an 'unreliable narrative' device in his essay on the book's 'errata'.

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is a slave narrative written by Josiah Henson, who would later become famous for being the basis of the character of Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The Merman's Children

The story follows them and their various fates as they seek a place to call their own, in locales as varied as the dying Norse colonies in Greenland and the coastlands of Dalmatia.

The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts

The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts is an 1852 plantation fiction novel by Caroline Rush, and among the first examples of the genre, alongside others such as Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman and Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is by W.L.G. Smith, both of which were also released in 1852.

The Widow’s Children

The Widow’s Children is a novel by American writer Paula Fox, first published in 1976.

To Our Children's Children's Children

#"Legend of a Mind" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Thomas) - 4:37

True to the Game

The song is a condemnation of Uncle Toms who sell out themselves to white communities and audiences: "Stop selling out your race, and wipe that stupid-ass smile off your face."

Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site

Across the road is the burial ground for the Dawn Settlement and the British-American Institute, a school started by Josiah Henson.

Wilhelm Simon

During his time as Labor Service Leader, Simon acquired a reputation for brutality among the inmates of Mittelbau-Dora, who gave him the nickname "Simon Legree" after the character of the cruel slave-master in the book "Uncle Tom’s Cabin".

Zakaria Zubeidi

In 2004, Mer-Khamis completed a documentary film about the group, Arna's Children.


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