Uncle Tom

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More than 150 years ago, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” helped lay the groundwork for the end of slavery. Let’s hope that these novels help build pressure on trafficking as a modern echo of slavery.
150多年以前，《湯姆叔叔的小屋》爲奴隸制的終結打下基礎，希望這幾部長篇小說能爲奴隸制在現(xiàn)代社會的隂影——人口販賣施加壓力。
Especially he hated Ali calling him an Uncle Tom, a white man’s black boxer.
他最不能容忍阿裡把他稱作是湯姆叔叔，一個爲白人傚力的黑人拳手。

Yet when he worked to keep white liberals in the civil-rights coalition, Rustin was labelled an Uncle Tom by younger, less patient blacks.
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Turner also notes that the song makes an appearance in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which came to be embraced by abolitionist forces as an indictment of plantation life and slavery.
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a black person who is considered to be too eager to agree with white people or too willing to be treated in a way that is not equal to white people

In the past, some black people used Uncle Tom to refer to a black man when they disapproved of him because he was too respectful or friendly towards white people.