Uncle Tom
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Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The term "Uncle Tom" is also used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when that person is aware of their own lower-class status based on race. However, the use of the epithet is the result of later works derived from the original novel, and does not reflect Mrs. Stowe's actual depiction of Uncle Tom himself.
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See also
- Acting white
- House Negro
- Jump Jim Crow
- List of ethnic slurs
- The Brothers Brothers
- Race traitor
- Respectability politics
- Stepin Fetchit
- Sycophant
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