Post: #2315

An uncle tom is not really a racist, but there were basically 2 sorts of black slaves that lived on the plantations: house slaves and slaves that worked in the fields. The house slaves were treated better, spoke more like white people, and Uncle Tom was a house slave. He was also killed in the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin, as sort of a Christ figure in Uncle Tom's Cabin but in today's terminology, calling someone an "Uncle Tom" is sort of like calling them a house slave that is black on the outside, white on the inside, and not really as loyal to the black race.