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Uncle Tom

DEFINITIONS OF: Uncle Tom

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n a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Example of:
character, fictional character, fictitious character
an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

n (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites

Synonyms:
Tom
Type of:
Black, Black person, Negro, Negroid, blackamoor
a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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