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Uncle Tom

noun

(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites. Synonym: Tom.

A servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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"Uncle tom" Quotes from Famous Books

... admits, they were taught the value of work and its necessity. So, through slavery the negro in the United States to-day stands far above the wild and ignorant African who now inhabits the land from which he came. When you read Uncle Tom's Cabin, remember that Uncle Tom was a product of slavery and that the fairer side as presented by Mrs. Stowe was the most common in the whole South. Do not misunderstand me; together with a large majority of the thinking white men of the South, I rejoice that slavery is a ...

— Church work among the Negroes in the South - The Hale Memorial Sermon No. 2 • Robert Strange

... his comes to my mind. We called him U.T., that is Uncle Tom. He was not our uncle—we never had one—but the uncle of our predecessors at Kirk Braddan. And almost every Sunday evening he spent at the Vicarage—poor old thing! He was quite silent. One thing, though, he would say, as "regglar as clockwork." My mother occasionally apologised for the ...

— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie

... Wyss Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Three Musketeers, The Alexander Dumas Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's School Days Thomas Hughes Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Twenty Years After Alexander Dumas Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Under ...

— Daddy Takes Us to the Garden - The Daddy Series for Little Folks • Howard R. Garis

... seen or heard of. The people, up to date, have actually demanded over three and a half million copies, or nearly five car-loads of our little books, and there is no telling where it will stop. We have Robinson Crusoe backed clear off his island, and Uncle Tom's Cabin burned to the ground. Still it would have been a different story had we asked a dollar apiece for our books; so we are not ...

— Billy Baxter's Letters • William J. Kountz, Jr.

... Tell stories about him. Explain why "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a suitable book to read on ...

— Entertainments for Home, Church and School • Frederica Seeger

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