Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Cakewalk - 1903 Edison Version

From Uncle Tom’s Cabin Reconsidered - By 1903, the “simple, happy darkie“ was becoming a well-established 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 Shows.“ 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