21L.501 | Fall 2006 | Undergraduate

The American Novel

Topsy and Eva

Description:

Topsy and Eva, respectively, two characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The quote below the illustration is said by Eva to Topsy, “I love you, because you haven’t had any father, or mother, or friends;-because you’ve been a poor, abused child!” (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-2974 [color film copy transparency].)

Alt text:
A colored lithograph of a black girl and white girl, sitting affectionately with one another.
Caption:
Topsy and Eva, respectively, two characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The quote below the illustration is said by Eva to Topsy, “I love you, because you haven’t had any father, or mother, or friends;-because you’ve been a poor, abused child!” (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-2974 [color film copy transparency].)
A colored lithograph of a black girl and white girl, sitting affectionately with one another.

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