Happy Birthday, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author and Abolitionist: "Unfortunately for Stowe, in the 1850s several playwrights including George L. Aiken developed musicals and later films that obscured or purposefully misrepresented her anti-slavery message. Known as “Tom shows,” many of the shows marginalized Uncle Tom treating him as a minstrel rather than a hero, explains The Lost Museum."
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