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New York Tribune
Unsigned Advertisement (perhaps P. T. Barnum)
16 November 1853

BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM.

P. T. BARNUM, Proprietor and Manager; JOHN GREENWOOD, Assistant Manager; C. W. CLARKE, Director of Amusements.

SECOND WEEK AND CONTINUED SUCCESS

Of the New and Intensely Interesting

AMERICAN MORAL DRAMA;

In Five Parts, entitled,

  UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; or, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY

Originally Dramatized, upward of EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO, expressly for this Establishment by H. J. CONWAY, Esq., from the popular and world-renowned work of Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. This piece has been in preparation here, and under rehearsal, during the last TWENTY WEEKS, and is now produced, with ORIGINAL MUSIC, CHORUSES, a moving PANORAMIC DIORAMA of the most beautiful and unique description, and other expensive and highly effective auxiliaries.

EVERY EVENING this week, at 7 o'clock, and also on WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY AFTERNOONS at 1/2 before 2.

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

  The characters are represented by the most talented Dramatic Company in America, numbering over fifty persons, among whom are Messrs.

  

C. W. CLARKE, F. A. MONROE, BLEEKKER,
RADAWAY, THOMPSON, SATCHELL,
DALY, WENTWORTH, CUNNINGHAM,
J. L. MONROE, CHARLES, BROWN, &c., &c.

  Also, Misses

  

MENTAYER, BISHOP, THURSTON,
BELLAMY, CHIARINI, BROWN,
GRANICE, FLYNN, HORN,
JACKSON, MORTOT, PALMER,
CHARLES, WILSON, LYMAN,
BURROUGHS, HALL, STUART, etc, &c.

  For details of incidents, scenery, &c., see small bills.

  This is acknowledged to be the only just and sensible Dramatic version of Mrs. Stowe's book that has ever been put upon the stage. Precisely the same version has been represented in Kimball's Boston Museum over

TWO HUNDRED SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS,

and received with the most lively satisfaction and unqualified applause by more than

THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND CITIZENS of New-England.

  It represents Southern Negro

SLAVERY AS IT IS.

  Exposing all its abhorrent deformities, its cruelties and barbarities.

  It does "nothing extenuate or set down aught in malice," while it does not foolishly and unjustly elevate the negro above the white man in intellect or morals.

  It exhibits a true picture of Negro life in the South, instead of absurdly representing the ignorant slave as possessed of all the polish of the drawing-room, and the refinement of the educated whites.

  And instead of turning away the audience in tears, the author has wisely consulted dramatic taste by having Virtue triumphant at last, and after all the unjust sufferings, miseries and deprivations, conducted to happiness by the hand of Him who watches over all.

  In a word, this Drama deals with

FACTS, INSTEAD OF FICTION.

  It appeals to reason instead of the passions; and so far as truth is more powerful than error, the impressions of this drama will be more salutary than those of any piece based upon fanaticism without reason, and zeal without knowledge.

  On the OTHER AFTERNOONS, of the week, at 2 o'clock, remarkably diverting and comical performances, for which see the bills of the day.

  Admittance to the whole Museum—to see the LIVING GIRAFFES, the Bearded Lady, that Halls of Statuary, the Picture Gallery, the Natural History Department, the Chinese Saloon, and the Cosmorama Rooms, &c., as well as the Performances—25 cents. Children under ten, 12 1/2 cents. Seats in the Parquette, 12 1/2 cents extra. Reserved seats in the Dress Circle, 50 cents, which may be secured during the day.