he painting itself is a presentation of two of the characters, Uncle Tom and Eva, from the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The two characters are "...set in the foreground of a landscape that combines a luminous harbor scene with an overgrown arbor" (Pohl 200). Such landscape art was what Duncanson was renowned for, and also seems fitting since the master and slave are represented in a rural setting. Certainly, slavery was much more prominent in the rural South where plantations were the main source of economic prosperity.
             Another difference in the two paintings that's very clear is the way the characters are positioned relative to each other. Clearly, the early 18th century was a period wh
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