Plot:

An adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel.  A Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby, facing debt, decides to sell two enslaved people, Uncle Tom and young Harry, to a slave trader.  When Eliza, Harry’s mother, overhears the plan and fears losing her only surviving child, she escapes that night with her son, making a perilous journey across the icy Ohio River toward freedom. Meanwhile, Uncle Tom is sold “down the river” and transported south, on the journey he saves the life of a white child, Eva, leading her grateful father, Augustine St. Clare, to buy Tom and take him to New Orleans.

Notes:

• Artist: Paddy Brennan
• Writer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The tagline for the first episode states “Here we present to you — a world famous story, in pictures drawn by a famous artist” (though they still do not credit artist!)

Appeared:

• The Story in Pictures of Uncle Tom’s Cabin –  Bunty: #01 (18 Jan 1958) – #20 (31 May 1958)