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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A photograph of actors in blackface for an 1896 minstrel show in Mercur, Utah.

A photograph of actors in blackface for an 1896 minstrel show in Mercur, Utah.

Citation Information: “Mercur, Utah-Life and Customs p.5,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/f4ac76b36e3bad939d53de1c01a400e8.

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Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society via Mountain West Digital Library.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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An 1852 review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Fraser’s Magazine.

The printed announcement of a theatrical performance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Methodist Episcopal Church in Hudson, New Hampshire in 1879.

A photograph of actors in blackface for an 1896 minstrel show in Mercur, Utah.

A 1936 illustration depicting Europe as Eliza from Uncle Tom's Cabin crossing the ice floes of crises that led to World War II.

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