Small House of Uncle Thomas

by chuckofish

Today in 1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly started a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper. In honor of this I wanted to show you the famous scene from the King and I movie where Rita Moreno narrates a Siamese version of Little Eva’s escape from Simon Legree across the frozen river. Alas, this is not currently available on YouTube.

So here is the best I could do. It is still pretty great.

I remember back in 1994 when daughter #1 did a report in the 4th grade on Harriet Beecher Stowe. As part of her report she brought our VHS tape to school and showed the famous scene from the King and I.

A gratuitous photo of Yul Brynner to please my dual personality.

Amazingly most of her classmates had never seen it. I have always been an evangelist for great movies, even encouraging my children to embarrass themselves in front of their peers. Hopefully they have forgiven me.

Please note that 1851 was also the year that Moby-Dick was published. Amazing!