Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor

by Adena Spingarn

Book Overview

Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that he betrays his race. Readers have long noted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799156
• ISBN13: 9780804799157
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"