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Uncle Tom
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Date: 20010101
Author:William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris
Uncle Tom.
Although Harriet Beecher Stowe 's extremely succssful 1852 abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was the original source for the Uncle Tom idiom, its meaning is best understood through an examination of the numerous stage shows loosely based on the best-selling book. Theatrical entrepreneurs who did not share Stowe's antislavery zeal took great liberties with the novel's protagonist. Uncle Toms of the stage were usually depicted as thoroughly subservient individuals who willingly betrayed their black brethren in order to please their white masters. As a result, the Uncle ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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