Two enslaved people are forcibly separated from their families when they are sold to a cruel neighbor.

This film marks the 8th of nine silent film adaptations of Stowe’s novel. It is lost. In the film, Marguerite Clark starred as both Eva, the saintly white girl, and, in blackface, as Topsy, an enslaved girl.

Of the previous adaptations, two were released in 1903 (both filmed versions of traveling stage shows, of which one survives); two in 1910; two in 1913 (both of these are lost); and one in 1914.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Adapted from: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

Director: J. Searle Dawley

Year: 1918

Studio: Famous Players-Lasky

Genre: Drama