Uncle Tom's Cabin

"O, that's what troubles me, papa. You want me to live so happy, and never have any pain,--never suffer anything,--not even hear a sad story, when other poor creatures have nothing but pain and sorrow, all their lives... Papa, isn't there any way to have all slaves made free?" - Evangeline St. Clare

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is famous for strengthening abolitionism in the United States; when he met Stowe, Abraham Lincoln commented, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."

The book became wildly popular and was so bastardized in adaptation that the original plot near-completely disappeared; many of the amateur adaptations can be considered, in a way, to have been an 1800s version of fan fiction, with a very similar and damaging effect on the canon of the novel. In these adaptations, characters were often removed or unrecognizably changed, events were lifted out or changed, and the entire point of the story was often completely ignored. However, Uncle Tom's Cabin is considered a classic and still read as a part of US history.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is home to the Canon Sue Evangeline St. Clare, whose purpose in-canon is to be so completely unprejudiced as to shame Ophelia into losing her prejudice against the black slaves. Also known as "Little Eva", she is morally perfect, always kind-hearted and generous, reforms everyone around her (except for her mother), and even has magical color-changing hair (described as brown, blond, and everything in between). She then proceeds to die in a very melodramatic fashion. Eva is one of many "angelic child" characters which were so popular in the 1800s and early 1900s, most of whom were very strongly Sueish in their perfection, especially if they were also author favorites.

Minis spawned in this continuum are Mini-Legrees.