Up against the Ropes: Peter Jackson As “Uncle Tom” in America

Susan F. Clark currently holds a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a Senior Research Fellow at Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities. This article is part of a longer work in progress, a full-length study of Uncle Tom's Cabin in popular entertainment entitled Sold Down the River. Dr. Clark earned a PhD from Tufts University and has taught at Smith College, the University of Southern Maine, and Emerson College. Other publications appear in New Theatre Quarterly and the Journal of Popular Culture