Uncle Tom's Cabin

Jul 26, 1910

0h 25m

★ 0.0

Overview

The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave initially in the possession of the Shelbys of Kentucky. A 1927 re-release of this film cut the original runtime in half, and in its extant, fragmentary state, it runs 14 minutes.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Vitagraph Company of America

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Cast

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Florence Turner

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Mary Fuller

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