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Poor Tom!

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05508.013.04 Author/Creator: Place Written: London, England Type: Print Date: 1852 Pagination: 1 print ; b&w ; 35.7 x 23.5 cm. Order a Copy

Signed by Charles Still and William Holland Love in upper right corner. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Written by Charles Jefferys and composed by Stephen Glover. Depicts an enslave, Legree, threatening an enslaved man named Tom, "Didn't I pay down twelve hundred dollars cash for you. a'nt you mine now, body and soul!"

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Glover, Stephen, 1813-1870
Jefferys, Charles, 1807-1865

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