Uncle Tom in the American Imagination: A Cultural Biography

This dissertation charts the dramatic cultural transformation of Uncle Tom, the heroic Christian martyr of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), into a commonly known slur for a submissive race traitor. As many scholars have noted, the hero of Stowe's nov...

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Main Author: Spingarn, Adena Tamar
Other Authors: Stauffer, John
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10455
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10288452