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Uncle Tom

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Uncle Tom  (tm)
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
n
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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Noun1.Uncle TomUncle Tom - (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
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 TomUncle Tom - a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe


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If we do so, you just say to us, as old Chloe did in UNCLE TOM, `Tink ob yer marcies, chillen
Uncle Tom Sinnings is building a new barn on his place on the Valley Road.
 
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