Figure 2 Hammatt Billings, “Eliza on the Ice Floes,” wood engraving, from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the Illustrated Edition, Boston, 1853. (Courtesy, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.) Billings’s rendering of Eliza as a Caucasian helped to elicit sympathy for the character’s plight. In Staffordshire, Eliza is also shown as white, whereas French ceramic manufactories tend to show her skin color more accurately.