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Lexington, Kentucky, Jan. 11 - Lexington chapter, United Daughters of Confederacy, sent a written petition to Charles B. Scott, manager of the Lexington opera house, asking that the play “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” never be played again at the opera house here.
They give reasons that the best citizens and old families living in and about Lexington were once slaveowners as a heritage, not of their own choosing; that the incidents of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” are not typical of slave life in the South, but of isolated cases; that the production, the play and its being advertised with bloodhounds and pictures of an old negro in chains and a slaveowner with whip in hand, give a false idea of the history of the times to the children of the city and shows disrespect to the Southern gentlemen and good citizens and their families in this part of the country.
The petition has created a sensation here.Date(s) of Creation
1/17/1902
