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*MemeticLoser: Poor Uncle Tom was a victim of this. Decades of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tom_literature Anti-Tom literature]] and MinstrelShows transformed the once wise and self-sacrificing man into a simpering suck-up slavishly devoted to his white masters from which the term "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom Uncle Tom]]" and thus the UncleTomfoolery trope is named after.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Historians estimate that the vast majority of audiences in the 19th century knew ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' from the plethora of {{minstrel show|s}} adaptations rather than the original book. This ended up being a major factor in the novel's association with anti-Black racism, to the point where "Uncle Tom" became shorthand for a Black person who compromises the interests of Black liberation by cozying up to white society. It also motivated more critical reevaluations of the book in the 20th and 21st centuries, which noted how even though its portrayal of Black people was altruistic in motivation, it's still steeped in white supremacist tropes and did just as much as the play to popularize various anti-Black stereotypes.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Historians estimate that the vast majority of audiences in the 19th century knew ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' from the plethora of {{minstrel show|s}} adaptations rather than the original book. This ended up being a major factor in the novel's association with anti-Black racism, to the point where "Uncle Tom" became shorthand for a Black person who compromises the interests of Black liberation by cozying up to white society. It also motivated more critical reevaluations of the book in the 20th and 21st centuries, which noted how even though its portrayal of Black people was altruistic in motivation, it's still steeped in white supremacist tropes and did just as much as the play plays to popularize various anti-Black stereotypes.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Historians estimate that the vast majority of audiences in the 19th century knew ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' from the plethora of {{minstrel show|s}} adaptations rather than the original book. This ended up being a major factor in the novel's association with anti-Black racism, to the point where "Uncle Tom" became shorthand for a Black person who compromises the interests of Black liberation by cozying up to white society. It also motivated more critical reevaluations of the book in the 20th and 21st centuries, which noted how even though its portrayal of Black people was altruistic in motivation, it's still steeped in white supremacist tropes and did just as much as the play to popularize various anti-Black stereotypes.
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* HarsherInHindsight: In the afterstory, [[spoiler:George, Eliza, and Harry]] migrate to the newly formed Republic of Liberia. Stowe couldn't know it at the time she wrote the book, but this desicison likely worsened the future prospects of their descendants drastically. Nowadays, while Canada is one of the richest states in the world, Liberia is one of the poorest.
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* HarsherInHindsight: In the afterstory, [[spoiler:George, Eliza, and Harry]] migrate to the newly formed Republic of Liberia. Stowe couldn't know it at the time she wrote the book, but this desicison decision likely worsened the future prospects of their descendants drastically. Nowadays, while Canada is one of the richest states in the world, Liberia is one of the poorest.
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* CommonKnowledge: As stated above, a shocking amount of people think this book is a pro-slavery racismfest. Admittedly, the Black characters are caricatured in a manner that was common in depictions of Afro-Americans at the time, [[FairForItsDay but the book unapologetically opposes slavery nonetheless]].
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* CommonKnowledge: As stated above, a shocking amount of people think this book is a pro-slavery racismfest. Admittedly, the Black characters are caricatured in a manner that was common in depictions of Afro-Americans at the time, [[FairForItsDay but the book unapologetically opposes slavery nonetheless]]. Many Southern stage adaptations, however, were exactly this.
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* ItWasHisSled: Little Eva dies. People who know barely anything else about the plot will know this, whether from ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'''s "Small House of Uncle Thomas" play, from Creator/ShirleyTemple's ShowWithinAShow death scene in ''Film/{{Dimples}}'', or from somewhere else in pop culture.
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* ItWasHisSled: Little Eva dies. People who know barely anything else about the plot will know this, whether from ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'''s the "Small House of Uncle Thomas" play, play in ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', from Creator/ShirleyTemple's ShowWithinAShow death scene in ''Film/{{Dimples}}'', or from somewhere else in pop culture.
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* ItWasHisSled: Little Eva dies. People who know barely anything else about the plot will know this, whether from ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'''s "Small House of Uncle Thomas" play, from Creator/ShirleyTemple's ShowWithinAShow death scene in ''Film/{{Dimples}}'', or from somewhere else in pop culture.
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* FairForItsDay: The novel is an example in regard to UnfortunateImplications. The black characters are caricatured, but they're at least treated as human beings, and the whole point of it was to condemn slavery. When released, the novel outraged Southerners, and an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tom_literature entire genre]] was created in response. Over the years, supporters of slavery created InNameOnly adaptions of the novel that used the worst of the blackface caricatures. It was these characterizations that stuck in the public's consciousness and gave rise to the term [[UncleTomfoolery "Uncle Tom"]]. The Uncle Tom character featured in the novel is anything ''but'' the stereotype: [[spoiler:he's killed for ''adamantly defying his cruel owner'' in order to ensure freedom for some fellow slaves]].
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* FairForItsDay: The novel is an example in regard to UnfortunateImplications. The black characters are caricatured, but they're at least treated as human beings, and the whole point of it was to condemn slavery. When released, the novel outraged Southerners, and an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tom_literature entire genre]] was created in response. Over the years, supporters of slavery created InNameOnly adaptions of the novel that used the worst of the blackface caricatures. It was these characterizations that stuck in the public's consciousness and gave rise to the term [[UncleTomfoolery "Uncle Tom"]]. The Uncle Tom character featured in the novel is anything ''but'' the stereotype: [[spoiler:he's killed for ''adamantly defying his cruel owner'' in order to ensure freedom for some fellow slaves]].
