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To: one_less who wrote (787774)	6/5/2014 1:31:36 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577893

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6/5/2014 1:33:48 PM

From: koan

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This article is about the character from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the resulting epithet. For the P. G. Wodehouse character, see Tom Travers.
Uncle TomCreated byInformationGenderNationality

Uncle Tom's Cabin character
Detail of an illustration from the first book edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Depicts Uncle Tom as young and muscular
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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American

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The phrase "Uncle Tom" has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group. [1] [2] The negative epithet is the result of later works derived from the original novel