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- Myth Buster-Topsy the Elephant - Rutgers University
Did Edison really electrocute Topsy the Elephant? It is arguably the most famous animal execution ever—the killing of Topsy the elephant at Luna Park on Coney Island in January 1903 It received national coverage in the newspapers, and the Edison Manufacturing Co sent a film crew to document it
- The Story of Topsy from Uncle Toms Cabin - University of Virginia
Her name was Topsy, and when children are old enough they may read all about her in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a book that had much to do with freeing the slaves; a sad, sad story, indeed; as sad as Topsy, ignorant and care-free, was joyful and mischievous
- The Picaninny Caricature - Anti-black Imagery - Jim Crow Museum
The first famous picaninny was Topsy -- a poorly dressed, disreputable, neglected enslaved girl Topsy appeared in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin Topsy was created to show the evils of slavery
- From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter XX: Topsy
Topsy, with great gravity and adroitness, went through the exercise completely to Miss Ophelia’s satisfaction; smoothing the sheets, patting out every wrinkle, and exhibiting, through the whole process, a gravity and seriousness with which her instructress was greatly edified
- Chapter 15: Topsy | Uncle Toms Cabin Told to the Children | Harriet . . .
Topsy had never been spoken to so kindly and gently in all her life For a minute she looked as if she were going to cry The next she was grinning as usual in her ugly way
- The Duncan Sisters as Topsy | American Literature in the World
Topsy is an embarrassment to a black race that is trying to overcome comic mockery of cultural habits New freedoms brought a desire for a new image- an image that reflected greater dignity Topsy’s lasting cultural impact, was a disgrace to that hope
- Topsy and Eva | The American Novel - MIT OpenCourseWare
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!"
- The Story of Little Black Sambo and The Story of Topsy from Uncle Tom’s . . .
Source University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Baldwin Call # Baldwin Call #23h23190 Description This disturbing adaptation reduces Sambo and his mother to grotesque caricatures of Black people
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