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Songs before 1900 are performed by modern musicians; songs after 1900 are original recordings.
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Timeline: 1830 - 1930


	1830	STOWE TEACHES WITH SISTER IN HARTFORD
		Home Sweet Home (1823)
NAT TURNER LEADS SLAVE REVOLT IN VIRGINIA	1831
T. D. RICE DANCES AS "JIM CROW" IN NEW YORK	1832	STOWE MOVES WITH FAMILY TO CINCINNATI
AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY FOUNDED	1833	STOWE SEES SLAVERY IN KENTUCKY
	1834	ANTI-SLAVERY PROTESTS AT LANE SEMINARY
		Zip Coon (1834)

	1836	ANTI-ABOLITION RIOT IN CINCINNATI



	1840
		The True Heart of Woman (1840)

FIRST BLACKFACE MINSTREL SHOWS APPEAR	1842
MILLERITES PREDICT THE END OF THE WORLD	1843


MEXICAN WAR BEGINS	1846
"GREEK SLAVE" BEGINS TOURING AMERICA	1847
		Old Uncle Ned (1848)
SENECA FALLS WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION	1848
GOLD DISCOVERED IN CALIFORNIA	1849	STOWE'S INFANT SON SAMUEL CHARLES DIES
FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW PASSED	1850	STOWE RESOLVES TO WRITE OPPOSING LAW

	1851	UNCLE TOM'S CABIN BEGINS APPEARING
	1852	UNCLE TOM'S CABIN PUBLISHED AS BOOK
		First Edition Illustration (1852)
		Aunt Harriet Beecha Stowe (1853)
		Staffordshire Figurine (c1853)
	1853	UNCLE TOM'S CABIN DRAMATIZED
		Illustrated Edition Illustration (1853)
		At New York's National Theatre (1853)
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT PASSED	1854	RICE PLAYS UNCLE TOM ONSTAGE
	1855	STOWE PUBLISHES THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE
DRED SCOTT DECISION	1856	STOWE PUBLISHES DRED
	1857	MAN IMPRISONED FOR OWNING STOWE'S NOVEL

JOHN BROWN'S RAID ON HARPER'S FERRY	1859
		At Boston's Adelphi Theatre (1859)
	1860
CIVIL WAR BEGINS	1861
	1862	STOWE MEETS LINCOLN IN THE WHITE HOUSE
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION	1863

13th AMENDMENT ABOLISHES SLAVERY	1865
KU KLUX KLAN BEGINS REIGN OF TERROR	1866	STOWE RE-READS UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

14th AMENDMENT MAKES EX-SLAVES CITIZENS	1868
		At the Lowell Music Hall (1868)

15th AMENDMENT GUARANTEES VOTING RIGHTS	1870
FISK JUBILEE SINGERS TOUR NORTH	1871
		Steal Away (traditional)



	1875	TOM SHOWS INCLUDE JUBILEE SINGERS
CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION IN PHILADELPHIA	1876	PLANTATION SCENES APPEAR IN TOM SHOWS
END OF RECONSTRUCTION	1877	MRS. HOWARD ACTS TOPSY FOR 3000th TIME
		At the New Orleans' Music Hall (1877)
	1878	STOWE & PUBLISHER RENEW COPYRIGHT
		New Edition Illustration (1878)
		Steamboat Race (1878)

FIRST UNCLE REMUS BOOK PUBLISHED	1880

BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUSES MERGE	1881	"DOUBLE" TOM SHOWS APPEAR
		Magic Lantern Show (c1881)
		Uncle Tom's Gwine to Stay (1881)


FIRST PLANTATION TALE PUBLISHED	1884

		Two Markses (1885)
STATUE OF LIBERTY INAUGURATED	1886



	1890

	1892	NOVEL'S COPYRIGHT PROTECTION EXPIRES
CHICAGO HOSTS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION	1893	"TOM'S CABIN" AT CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR

		Insurance Calendar (1894)
		Tom Show Image (1894)

		Climb de Golden Fence (1895)
PLESSY v FERGUSON LEGALIZES SEGREGATION	1896	STOWE DIES IN HARTFORD

		Art Memorial Edition Illustration (1897)


	1900

		Young Folks' Edition Illustration (1901)
	1902	THOMAS DIXON PUBLISHES LEOPARD'S SPOTS
	1903	FIRST FILM VERSION OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
		Edison-Porter Version (1903)
		The Flogging Scene (1904)


		Milton Bradley Play Village (c1905)



N.A.A.C.P. FOUNDED	1909
	1910
		Vitagraph Version (1910)
		Topsy (c1910)

		At Uncle Tom's Cabin Door (1912)


		UTC Picture Book Illustration (1913)
	1914	FIRST FILM WITH BLACK ACTOR AS TOM
		World-Film Corp. Version (1914)
*GRIFFITH'S BIRTH OF A NATION* PREMIERES**	1915
		Birth of a Nation (1915)



	1919	"UNCLE TOM" BECOMES PERJORATIVE TERM
19th AMENDMENT GIVES WOMEN RIGHT TO VOTE	1920


		Cream of Wheat Ad (1921)

	1923	*DUNCAN SISTERS' TOPSY & EVA* PREMIERES**
		I Never Had a Mammy (1923)


	1926	WEAF AIRS RADIO PLAY
	1927	UNIVERSAL PRODUCES $1.8 MILLION FILM
		Universal Super Jewel Version (1927)

		Little Eva's Temptation (c1928)

		Coward-McCann Edition Illustration (1929)
	1930