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Uncle Tom   /ˈəŋkəl tɑm/   Listen
Uncle Tom

noun
1.
(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.  Synonym: Tom.
2.
A servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.






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"Uncle tom" Quotes from Famous Books



... Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tony Oakes, the Hermitage, and Cornelius Stagg's were noted road-houses where fine meals were served, but these are scarcely to be considered ...
— Bohemian San Francisco - Its restaurants and their most famous recipes--The elegant art of dining. • Clarence E. Edwords

... plague of Prudy's life, and yet she loves her dearly. Both are rare articles in juvenile literature, as real as Eva and Topsy of 'Uncle Tom' fame. Witty and wise, full of sport and study, sometimes mixing the two in a confusing way, they run bubbling through many volumes, and make everybody wish they could never grow up or change, they are ...
— Prudy Keeping House • Sophie May

... romance, Miss Graham, upon my word it is,' began George, standing with his back to the others, and looking down most impressively into the girl's face,—'your story, I mean, of course. Uncle Tom has told us how you, the heiress of Bourhill, have lived in the ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan

... romantic novels (Lorna Doone, The Heart of Midlothian), novels of manners (Cranford, Pride and Prejudice), novels of personality (Silas Marner, The Scarlet Letter), novels of purpose (Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin). ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long

... and intelligent. One bowed—another smiled—a third waited with a salutation my commands. 'Take care of Mister Smooth!' again spoke the man behind the mahogany, as with an effort to be commanding in accent. That they might know more emphatically (as Uncle Tom Benton says) that Mr. Smooth was none of your common citizen, I turned my eyes on the darkies, and stared at them until they turned pale. Then one possessed himself of my bundle: moving off with a scientific motion, and a bow a la cabinet, ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton


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