Uncle Tom

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Uncle Tom (t

n. Offensive

A Black person who is regarded as being humiliatingly subservient or deferential to white people.

[After Uncle Tom, a character in Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.]

Uncle Tom

Informal derogatory a Black whose behaviour towards Whites is regarded as obsequious and servile

[after the slave who is the main character of H. B. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)]

Uncle Tomism n

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Noun	1.	Uncle Tom - (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites Tom derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something ethnic slur - a slur on someone's race or language Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid, Black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
	2.	Uncle Tom - a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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