... was portrayed by a white man in blackface. Porter used blackened actors and actresses in all major roles, allowing Afro-Americans only to appear in minor roles. His production owed more to a sentimental drama, than to Mrs. Stowe's novel, which was written in 1852. Nevertheless the cruelties of ... faithful retainer (Uncle Tom), the brute (Sambo and Quimbo), and the tragic mulatto (George)" . Tom was the first of all "socially acceptable Good Negro characters" up to that time. It was characteristic for the tom to keep always his faith, although he got "chosed, harassed, hounded, flogged, e...

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