"Poor Topsy! Why need you steal?"
| One of twelve plates from folding accordian-style screen of scenes
from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eva, Topsy. Caption below picture: "There stood the two children, representations of their races: the Saxon, born of ages of cultivation, command, education, physical and moral eminence; the Afric, born of ages of oppression, submission, ignorance, toil and vice." Bauerrichter & Br. 68, Basinghall St. (COPYRIGHT. The Clifton Waller Barrett Collection, University of Virginia. |