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Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking literary attack against the dehumanization of slaves. Tom is a deeply religious Christian preacher to his fellow slaves who uses nonresistance, but who accepts being flogged to death rather than violate the plantation's code of silence by informing against the route being used by two women who have just escaped from slavery. However, the character also came to be criticized for allegedly being inexplicably kind to white slaveowners, especially based on his portrayal in pro-compassion dramatizations. This led to the use of Uncle Tom — sometimes shortened to just a Tom — as a derogatory epithet for an exceedingly subservient person or house negro, particularly one accepting and uncritical of their own lower-class status. (From Wikipedia) More about Uncle Tom (Fictitious character):
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More specific subjects: | | Books about Uncle Tom (Fictitious character): Filed under: Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"), From 1789 to 1881 (revised and enlarged edition; London, ON: Schuyler, Smith, and Co., 1881), by Josiah Henson, ed. by John Lobb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, S. Morley, Wendell Phillips, and John Greenleaf Whittier (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)- Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876 (London: Christian Age Office, 1876), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, and S. Morley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co., 1854), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
- A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work (Boston, MA: J.P. Jewett and Co.; et al., 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple formats at archive.org)
Filed under: Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) -- Drama- The Christian Slave: A Drama Founded Upon a Portion of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1855), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (New Version): A Melodrama in Five Acts (New York: Harold Roorbach, 1889), by Charles Townsend, contrib. by George L. Aiken and Harriet Beecher Stowe (HTML at Virginia)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (HTML at Virginia)
Filed under: Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple editions)
- Oheim Tom's Hütte: oder, Das Leven bei den Niedrigen (Uncle Tom's Cabin in German; Boston: J. P. Jewett und Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, und Worthington, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by Hugo Rudolph Hutten
Filed under: Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction
11 additional books about Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) A key to Uncle Tom's cabin; presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. (J.P. Jewett & co.;, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)- "Uncle Tom's cabin" in Germany (D. Appleton & Company, 1910), by Grace Edith Maclean (page images at HathiTrust)
- The key to Uncle Tom's cabin; presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. (Clarke, Beeton and Co., and Thomas Bosworth, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uncle Tom at home. A review of the reviewers and repudiators of Uncle Tom's cabin by Mrs. Stowe. (W.P. Hazard, 1853), by F. Colburn Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
- A visit to Uncle Tom's cabin (Laird & Lee, 1892), by Daniel B. Corley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Review from home in answer to the reviewers and repudiators of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe (W.P. Hazard, 1853), by F. Colburn Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Negro life in the slave states of America (Clarke, 1852), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uncle Tom's cabin. (Dodd, Mead, 1952), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work., by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)
- De Slavernij: Vervolg en Sleutel op De Negerhut (in Dutch), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)
- A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery, by A. Woodward (Gutenberg ebook)
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