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

Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, CT. | American Experience | PBS