Add MS 52937 V

'The slave hunt! or, St Clare and the happy days of Uncle Tom, including Cassy's storey and the death of Eva’, ‘being an entirely new version of “Uncle Tom's cabin” ’(‘Uncle Tom's cabin’), in two acts by H. Young. Licence sent 17 February 1853 for performance at the Victoria 31 February 1853. A new scene appears to have been inserted in the text. Songs included in MS. Other versions include those written in 1852 by J. Courtney (Add. 52934 K); three versions by Edward Fitzball (Add. 52934 G, 52935 R, and 52936 Q); H. Young Add. 52935 FF); G. D. Pitt (Add. 52935 I); William Brough (Add. 52935 J); Tom Taylor and Mark Lemon (Add. 52936 A); and anonymous versions (Add. 52934 C and 52934 F). There were further versions in 1853 by C. Hermann; and by an unnamed author (Add. 52937 A); in 1878 by G. F. Rowe; in 1882 by another unnamed author; and in 1887 by A. Dampier and J. F. Sheridan. Keywords: gambling, American characters, debt and its consequences, slavery and abolitionism, Uncle Tom's cabin, literature and literary reference, family relationships.

ff. 34.

H. Young, writer of plays: 'The slave hunt!, or St Clare and the happy days of Uncle Tom', drama in two acts: circa 1853.

H. Young, writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1852-1864.