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Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. [1] The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking literary attack against the dehumanization of slaves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".
Illustration of Tom and Eva by Hammatt Billings for the 1853 deluxe edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom syndrome is a theory in multicultural psychology [1] referring to a coping skill in which individuals use passivity and submissiveness when confronted with a threat, leading to subservient behaviour and appeasement, while concealing their true thoughts and feelings.
Anti-Tom literature consists of the 19th century pro-slavery novels and other literary works written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Also called plantation literature , these writings were generally written by authors from the Southern United States .
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