On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Dan Scanlan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:12 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tarantino’s film features “the biggest, nastiest ‘Uncle Tom’ ever”—played by Samuel Jackson—who is insanely loyal to his evil white master, and savage in his treatment of fellow slaves. > > In Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Tom is a slave who resists beating other slaves on orders from his master. As a result, two other slaves pummel Tom to death. I read once that Uncle Tom's Cabin was neck and neck with bible sales at one time. > > I don't know but I guess that the transformation of the literary character into his opposite has something to do with Americans' inability to deal with their "successful" culture based on deep seated racism. >
As I understand it, "Uncle Tom" acquired its current derogatory meanings from post-Civil War blackface minstrel show adaptations of Harriet Beecher-Stowe's book which often portrayed a caricature of the Uncle Tom character that was very different from the heroic character from the novel. -raghu.
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