Staging Ground. Leslie Stainton

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      The images were unforgettable: Simon Legree whipping Tom, Eliza escaping with her infant across the frozen Ohio River, the death of Little Eva. These became, in effect, holy pictures for a rapt nation. In New York, the show enthralled a young Henry James, who later described Tom as a “wonderful ‘leaping’ fish” that flew through the air and landed “on every stage, literally without exception, in America and Europe.” Moved by the drama, Stephen Foster composed “My Old Kentucky Home.” “Tomming” became a way of life for countless actors and a mechanism by which Americans of all persuasions probed their assumptions about race. There were pro-slavery Toms, blackface lampoons, Irish parodies that critiqued white slave labor in the North, comic burlesques with happy endings.

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