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Shelby calls Harry "Jim Crow," commands him to perform; Harry performs minstrel song/dance, psalm; Haley expresses distaste for slaves' religious singing. |
1 scene | Residents and visitors in Tom's cabin dance, sing [Methodist] church and camp-meeting hymns. |
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After-effects of the prayer-meeting and "lengthy solos" at Tom's cabin. |
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Sam describes Eliza's escape by paraphrasing hymns: "'cross Jordan . . . in the land o' Canaan." |
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Haley's slaves described by paraphrasing Psalm 137:3, which references song. |
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Eliza awakes in Quaker safe house to "singing," "musical" sounds of food preparation. |
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Haley dismisses pious singers as "no account." |
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Augustine St. Clare's ideal childhood described with a simile of music. |
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Ophelia described via Isaac Watts hymn ("For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do"). St. Clare displays "genius for music" at piano, and whistles. Tom described as "a hero to Eva" because of "songs and Methodist hymns . . . better than an opera". Marie calls Methodist hymn-singing "Horrible!". Eva "up in Tom's room, hearing him sing" hymns: "he's going to teach them to me." |
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Trust between Simeon and George is "like sacred music." Phineas "beguiled his long drive with whistling certain very unquaker-like songs." |
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St. Clare described as spending "Sunday evenings at the opera or theatre." Ophelia cleans out a drawer in which Dinah keeps "a Methodist hymn-book." Adolph, Jane, Rosa, Dinah talk about dances. |
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St. Clare quotes Song of Songs. St. Clare describes his mother as "genius . . . in music," playing organ and singing. Location of Bible and hymn-book in Tom's room. |
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St. Clare calls Topsy "Jim Crow," whistles and commands her to sing and dance;
Topsy performs minstrel song/dance. Topsy's exhibits talent "for dancing, . . . singing, whistling" and "scenic performances." |
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Mrs. Shelby vows to "take music-scholars" to earn money; Mr. Shelby calls it degrading. |
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Tom's spirit described with metaphor: "the harp of human feeling," "nothing but a crash that breaks every string can wholly mar its harmony." Tom sings hymns "O, had I the wings of the morning" and ["And let this feeble body fail"]. Eva would teach slaves; Marie mocks her wanting to teach them piano. |
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St. Clare, holding Eva, has a vision of a "spirit voice . . . [of] his mother's prayers and hymns." |
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Ophelia takes Eva to Methodist prayer meeting [not further described], and tries to educate Topsy: "I locked her up, and gave her a hymn to study." Eva inspires Topsy with "those spirits bright, Uncle Tom sings about." |
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Epigraph from Thomas Moore, "Weep Not for Those" [set to music by Sir John Stevenson]. Uncle Tom comforts Eva by singing "their favorite old hymns"; Eva tells St. Clare she prefers Tom carrying her and singing. Tom tells Ophelia of Eva's impending death by "quoting from a favorite hymn." |
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Eva's grave is "by the mossy seat where she and Tom had talked, and sung, and read so often." |
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St. Clare plays the piano "in a deep reverie, . . . soliloquizing to himself by music"; sings "Dies Irae." St. Clare's dying words are Latin hymn. |
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Skeggs commands slaves to fiddle and dance. Emmeline and mother keep hymn-book, sing hymn "O, where is weeping Mary?" |
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Legree sees "Tom's Methodist hymn-book" and forbids pious singing. |
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Legree commands slaves to sing; Tom begins hymn "Jerusalem, my happy home," Legree shuts him up, another man sings a [minstrel] song. Tom dreams of Eva, who ascends to heaven "wafted on [divine] music." |
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Cassy recalls her up-bringing: "I went to a convent, and there I learned music." Cassy describes trying to soften a cruel husband by playing and singing music, dancing. |
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Legree's childhood described: mother's "prayers and pious hymns," "the sound of Sabbath bell." Legree frightened by hearing a hymn; whistles to dogs, commands Sambo and Quimbo to sing/dance. |
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Tom sings ["Amazing Grace"]. Tom sings "When I can read my title clear," inspires slaves; Legree curses Methodist hymns. |
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Tom's remonstration to Legree "Like a strange snatch of heavenly music." |
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Tom's dying words are from hymn ["Why should we start, and fear to die!"]. |
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George Shelby describes Eliza Harris as "a beautiful singer." |
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Freed slaves at Shelby plantation sing hymn ["Blow ye the trumpet"]. |