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`Uncle Tom's Cabin' frees character of bad image
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19870612
Author:Daniel Ruth
Uncle Tom's Cabin (STAR) (STAR) 1/2 Tom Avery Brooks Simon Legree Edward Woodward
Showtime presents a program directed by Stan Latham and adapted from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel by John Gay. Showing from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday over local cable systems.
One of the most demeaning and offensive slurs directed toward any black man or woman is to be called an "Uncle Tom." The term suggests that blacks have sold out their black identity, their black pride to white society in a subservient manner.
The term "Uncle Tom" was derived from Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle ...
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