Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Tom and Casy get up the next morning to go to Uncle John's.

* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.

Determined not to be called an Uncle Tom, he refused to deliver the principal's carefully prepared valedictory address that would not offend the white school officials and finally convinced the black administrators to let him ad a compromised version of what he had written.

Clark quickly realizes that once Uncle Tom is released, no matter what happens, their kidnappers will have little reason to keep their prisoners alive.

Uncle Tom, in a phone conversation with Podkayne's father, blames the parents — especially the mother — for neglecting the upbringing of the children.

Uncle Tom feels that Clark is dangerous and maladjusted, and attributes this to the mother giving priority to her career.

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The phrase " Uncle Tom " has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people ; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group.

Depicts Uncle Tom as young and muscular

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.

Despite Douglass's enthusiasm, an anonymous 1852 reviewer for William Lloyd Garrison's publication The Liberator suspected a racial double standard in the idealization of Uncle Tom:

: Uncle Tom ’ s character is sketched with great power and rare religious perception.

: For my part, I was never an admirer of Uncle Tom, nor of his type of goodness ; but I believe that there were lots of old Negroes as foolishly good as he ; the proof of which is that they knowingly stayed and worked on the plantations that furnished sinews for the army which was fighting to keep them enslaved .”

Stowe had stated that her sons had wept when she first read them the scene of Uncle Tom's death, but after Baldwin's essay it ceased being respectable to accept the melodrama of the Uncle Tom story.

Stowe drew inspiration for the Uncle Tom character from several sources.

In the public imagination, however, Henson became synonymous with Uncle Tom.

Uncle Tom, from an 1885 magic lantern series.

The term " Uncle Tom " is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when that person perceives their own lower-class status based on race.

The popular negative connotation of " Uncle Tom " has largely been attributed to numerous derivative works inspired by Uncle Tom's Cabin in the decade after its release, rather than the original novel itself, whose title character is a more positive figure.

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

He soon became a breakdancer for Uncle Jamms Army.

Once back in Detroit he became friends with Uncle Kracker after battling his brother in a freestyle rapping competition ; Uncle Kracker became Kid Rock's DJ.

His nickname became " Sam " among army colleagues at the academy, since the initials " U. S ." stood for " Uncle Sam ".

Grandfather Vincent had six sons, three of whom became art dealers, including another Vincent who was referred to in van Gogh's letters as " Uncle Cent ".

It became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and is considered " the most influential Christian book of the ...

Stowe's Uncle Tom was a muscular and virile man who refused to obey when ordered to beat other slaves ; the stock character of minstrel shows became a shuffling asexual individual with a receding hairline and graying hair.

In 1926, Uncle Dave Macon, a Tennessee banjo player who had recorded several songs and toured the vaudeville circuit, became its first real star.

When Stowe's work became a best-seller, Henson republished his memoirs as The Memoirs of Uncle Tom and traveled on lecture tours extensively in the United States and Europe.

In 1932, " Uncle Jake " left a tract of 40 acres ( 160, 000 m2 ) located in the center of the city, this later became Kindleberger Park in his honor.

There have been examples of Uncle Ben remaining alive in alternative timelines, including stories featured in Marvel's What If ( one of which he forces Peter to unmask in front of J. Jonah Jameson ), and a storyline of the 1994 Spider-Man animated series featured a universe where Uncle Ben had never died, and Peter Parker became a successful industrialist, having never really bothered to use his powers responsibly as everything always seemed to work out for him.

After reading Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, he became active in the abolitionist movement.

* Uncle Ben: Willy's older brother who became a diamond tycoon after a detour to Africa.

Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery ; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom.

In 1980, Uncle Jamm's Army became the best party promoters in LA.

Dorgon was conferred the title of " Emperor's Uncle and Prince Regent " ( 皇叔父攝政王 ), which later became " Emperor's Father and Prince Regent " ( 皇父攝政王 ).

Anna claimed that her conversations with Prince Chulalongkorn about human freedom, and her relating to him the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin, became the inspiration for his abolition of slavery almost 40 years later.

He spent his school summer holidays at the home of his Uncle Tom and Aunt Lizzie in Clayton, his own family having moved to Huddersfield when Henry ceased to be an executioner, and he became very close to his uncle.

In the pre-grunge days of the 1990s, up-and-coming local St. Louis area bands Uncle Tupelo blended punk, rock, country-influenced music styles with raucous performances and became the modern day pioneers of the genre known as Alt-country.

Modern scholars and readers have criticized the book for what are seen as condescending racist descriptions of the book's black characters, especially with regard to the characters ' appearances, speech, and behavior, as well as the passive nature of Uncle Tom in accepting his fate.

* Ramona, a novel that attempted to do for Native Americans in California what Uncle Tom's Cabin had done for African Americans

At Bent's Fort he engaged " Uncle Dick " Wootton as guide, and at what is now Pueblo, Colorado, he hired the eccentric " Old Bill " Williams and moved on.

In the second season premiere where it revealed about Spider-Man's origin, she and Uncle Ben made a tiny cameo about what Peter was doing after no one knew he was bitten by a radioactive spider.

And, as the show landed a pair of Emmy Awards in that first year ( the show itself, for Best Kinescope Show ; and, Berle as Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality ), Uncle Miltie ( he first called himself by that name ad-libbing at the end of a 1949 broadcast ) joked, preened, pratfell, danced, costumed, and clowned his way to stardom, with Americans discovering television as a technological marvel and entertainment medium seeming to bring the country to a dead stop every Tuesday night, just to see what the madcap Berle might pull next.

* Worst Team on Television: Uncle Frank, Veatrice, and Guillermo discuss a popular topic of the day, usually having no clue what they're talking about and eventually devolving into nonsense and insults.

" She states that she was " wrapped " in seven veils, and gifted to her Uncle, and that what followed was a " dance of sorts.

In an attempt to institute a 26 % cut-back in the use of fabrics, the War Production Board drew up regulations for the wartime manufacture of what Esquire magazine called, " streamlined suits by Uncle Sam.

" Uncle Anderson had a brother-in-law named Gus Carnes, and one day Gus and Uncle Anderson decided to send some of the apples to the Star Brothers nursery to tell what kind of apple it was.

: Just what I fear ," says old Uncle Sam,

: Just what I fear ," says old Uncle Sam.

Chamberlain would often go to listen to her read passages from what would later become her celebrated novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Morgan D. Peoples and Michael L. Kurtz, in Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics, noted that the only thing certain about Long was his " unpredictability, for no one, and probably not even Long himself, knew what he would say or do next.

" If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life ," she wrote.

It's strange to hear Uncle Tupelo mentioned because what we were doing was in such a long line of musical history.

Because of his close relationship with Tony Soprano, Christopher is the only one ( besides Tony ) who knows which bodies were buried at " Uncle Pat " Blundetto's farm and where they were moved after Pat sold the farm, where Tony Blundetto's body was buried after Tony Soprano shot him, and what really happened to Ralph Cifaretto.

In the episode " Moe n ' Joe ", Janice confronts Tony about his treatment of Bobby, and Tony refuses to say what the siblings both knew: Tony blames Bobby ( and Janice, to some extent ) for his near-fatal shooting by Uncle Junior, because Bobby should have been watching Junior but Janice made him pass the task on to Tony.

By the mid-20th century, however, the dialect and the " old Uncle " stereotype of the narrator, was considered politically incorrect and demeaning by many African-American people, on account of what they considered to be racist and patronizing attitudes toward African-Americans.

However, many ( in particular the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and the Gay Liberation Front ) considered that the new law did not go far enough and blamed the HLRS for what they saw as a weakening of the Wolfenden Committee's proposals, calling the HLRS / Albany Trust a conformist outfit of " Uncle Toms ".

This is apparently what Uncle wanted to steal, as she betrayed him when they were young and he now wants revenge by making her his slave.

She received more attention during her lifetime for what are considered several strong novels of social protest: Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw ( 1836 ) was the first anti-slavery novel, influencing the American Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ).