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- ↑ Chalmers, J.P., ed. (April 24, 1909). "Edison Manufacturing Company: Uncle Tom Wins". The Moving Picture World . 4 (7): 525.
- ↑ Lupack, Barbara Tepa (2002). Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Morrison. University Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1-58046-103-0 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Lupack, Barbara Tepa (1999). Nineteenth-century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film. Popular Press. ISBN 978-0-87972-805-2 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Cripps, Thomas (1993). Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900–1942. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-502130-1 – via Google Books.
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