Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 book Uncle Tom’s Cabin remains one of American literature’s most influential works giving rise to racial and cultural representations that remain part of society today. Taiyon Coleman, poet and scholar of African American literature, discusses the history, interpretation, and relevance of the text in relationship to Kara Walker’s work The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven (1995), on view in Gallery 4.
