Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987) Starring Avery Brooks, Kate Burton, Bruce Dern, Paula Kelly, Phylicia Rashad, Kathryn Walker, Edward Woodward, George Coe, Frank Converse, Albert Hall, Jenny Lewis, Troy Byer, Shirley Jo Finney, Samuel L. Jackson, Endyia Kinney, Carla Sutton This adaptation of the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel follows the adventures of a group of slaves in the 19th-century American South. When Eliza (Phylicia Rashad) hears that she and her son will be separated despite a promise to the con

"It was at his dying bed, and at his grave, that I learned what a poor slave mother may feel when her child is torn away from her." In the summer of 1849, Harriet Beecher Stowe's son Charley died from a cholera outbreak in Cincinnati. | American Experience | PBS