An educational short film about the book Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852. It is believed to have had a profound effect, at the time, on attitudes to slavery in America.

The background of this film is a sketch by Samuel Lucas Senior depicting a real scene of a reading of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

We worked with a local primary school to help students understand the long history of Black people in Britain. The class discussed cultural appropriation, and agreed that the Black character should be written and narrated by a child of Black/mixed heritage. We hope this gives local people a chance to engage with people in the past whose stories are now forgotten.

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