Lizzy's Bridge. The article exhibits the dominion of maternal love.
| One of twelve plates from folding accordian-style screen of scenes
from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eliza, Harry, Haley, Sam,
Andy. Caption below picture: "Right on behind they came, and, nerved with strength such as God gives to the desperate with one wild cry and flying leap, she vaulted sheer over the turbid current by the shore on to the raft of ice beyond. It was a desperate leap impossible to any thing but madness and despair." (COPYRIGHT. The Clifton Waller Barrett Collection, University of Virginia. |