Uncle Toms Cabin Cakewalk 1903 Edison Version

From Uncle Tom s Cabin Reconsidered By 1903, the simple, happy darkie was becoming a wellestablished cultural and racial stereotype that was embedded in, and projected by, the many devolved stage versions of the play and the more vaudevillian traveling Tom Not only did they dance while waiting to be auctioned off as slaves, they also danced while waiting for the riverboat to come in and, in this scene, entitled Tom and Eva in the Garden, the producers insert