Scene summary from the 1903 Edison Catalogue:
Simon Legree's plantation on Snake River. Scene shows a large cotton-field and a large number of negroes picking cotton in the foreground. Uncle Tom is seen trying to keep up with the younger slaves, but is unable to do so. Cassy, a former mistress of Legree, is seen to give Uncle Tom a hand every now and then, while the overseer's back is turned. Legree enters and discovers Cassy helping Uncle Tom, and warns her not to do so. He calls Emaline and asks her if she ever wore ear-rings. She tells him "no," and he says that he has decided to take her out of the fields, and make a lady of her. He also tells her to go to the house. She declines to do so, saying that she would rather work in the fields with the rest of the slaves. This enrages Legree and he calls Tom, telling him that he has decided to promote him to be an overseer, and to take his whip and flog Emaline, saying that he had seen enough of it to know how it was done. Tom takes the whip, and as he raises it to strike Emaline, she kneels at his feet. Tom stops and throws the whip to the ground, refusing to whip her. . . .