Reel B, Eliza's Flight -- Scene 6

Phineas the Quaker gave a helping hand

From The Moving Picture World notice:
  . . . a large cake of floating ice, which rafts her down the stream, then from one piece of ice to another she leaps like a deer until she reaches the Ohio side of the river, where she is assisted up the bank and seeks shelter for herself and child. . . .
  Haley and his negro aides are baffled in the capture of their quarry. Haley is furious: the negroes delighted, and while Haley goes to the tavern to appease his wrath the darkies show their pleasure in fits of laughter, and return to the Shelby place to report Eliza's escape. Haley, after a night of it in company with Marks, the lawyer, and Tom Rorer, a human bloodhound, goes back to take possession of "Uncle Tom," by the sale of whom he hopes to make up for the loss of Harry. . . .

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