History YMMV / UncleTomsCabin

* IronWoobie: Uncle Tom, Evangeline, George Shelby, and Eliza.
* JerkassWoobie: Topsy, Cassie.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The anti-slavery message is not exactly subtle, but this book came out over a decade before the Civil War, and at the time to most people slavery looked like it was here to stay.
* StoicWoobie: St. Clare, possibly Ophelia, George Harris.

* TheWoobie: Emmeline and Chloe.

* UncannyValley: Marks (a bounty hunter that Mr. Haley hires, along with his partner Tom Loker, to track down Eliza), is described as a creepy little blighter with [[CreepyLongFingers "hands like raven's claws"]] and [[SinisterSchnoz "a long, thin nose"]]. He's constantly sniffing and looking at things in a disturbingly catlike manner. He's also a GigglingVillain who finds Haley and Loker's stories about mistreating their slaves hilarious. [[JokingMode Perhaps worst of all is that]] [[RealMenHateSugar he prefers mint julep to whiskey and fruit punch to brandy]].

* StoicWoobie: St. Clair, possibly Ophelia, George Harris.

* WhatAnIdiot: Legree tries to mock Tom when he's at a low point. It makes Tom ''even more determined'' to stay strong and Legree has to back off for a while.

* 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.]]

* 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.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: [[spoiler:The reunion of the family at the end]].
* IronWoobie: Uncle Tom, Evangeline, George Shelby and Eliza.

* UncannyValley: Marks, (a bounty hunter that Mr. Haley hires, along with his partner Tom Loker, to track down Eliza), is described as a creepy little blighter with [[CreepyLongFingers "hands like raven's claws"]] and [[SinisterSchnoz "a long, thin nose"]]. He's constantly sniffing and looking at things in a disturbingly catlike manner. He's also a GigglingVillain who finds Haley and Loker's stories about mistreating their slaves hilarious. [[JokingMode Perhaps worst of all is that]] [[RealMenHateSugar he prefers mint julep to whiskey and fruit punch to brandy]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: Slavery is wrong.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The anti-slavery message isn't subtle. However, this was a time when at least a large minority supported slavery and actually deluded themselves into thinking that it was best for black people. Effective, non-subtle, widespread anti-slavery propaganda was badly needed.

** YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: A great fan of the novel, [[http://andersentritte.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-few-words-about-adolf-hitlers-private.html who ranked it among the world's greatest]], was [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf Hitler]]. [[SarcasmMode He might have enjoyed Simon Legree's part a bit too much]].

* FairForItsDay: The novel is an example in regard to UnfortunateImplications. The blacks are caricatures, 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.]]

HarsherInHindsights: 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.

* ValuesDissonance: Aside from the obvious racial issues, there is one point where we're recounted the story of a pair of boys stoning a kitten to death, their mother gets [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristically]] upset, but they never stone a kitten to death again, so lesson learned. It's treated as a case of "boys will be boys", quite at odds with today where a woman putting a cat in a bin was treated with worldwide rage.

* TearJerker: The whole book due to it taking place during pre-American Civil War timeline.

* IronWoobie: Uncle Tom, Evangeline, George Shelby and Eliza

* TearJerker: The whole book due to it taking place during slavery.

* TearJerker: The whole book is about Tom's plight.

%%* {{Anvilicious}}

%%* IronWoobie: Uncle Tom, Evangeline, George Shelby and Eliza
%%* JerkassWoobie: Topsy, Cassie.

%%* StoicWoobie: St. Clair, possibly Ophelia, George Harris.
%%* TearJerker: The whole book.

%%* TheWoobie: Emmeline and Chloe.

* IronWoobie: Uncle Tom, Evangeline, George Shelby and Eliza

* StoicWoobie: St. Clair, possibly Ophelia, George Harris.

* FairForItsDay: The novel is an example in regard to UnfortunateImplications. The blacks are caricatures, 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. ]]

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The anti-slavery message isn't exactly subtle and kind of dumbed down. However, this was a time when at least a large minority supported slavery and actually deluded themselves into thinking that it was best for black people. Effective, non-subtle, widespread anti-slavery propaganda was badly needed.

* TheWoobie:
** IronWoobie: Uncle Tom, Evangeline, George Shelby.
** JerkassWoobie: Topsy, Cassie.
** StoicWoobie: St. Clair, possibly Ophelia, George Harris.
** TheWoobie: Emmeline, Eliza (who then goes IronWoobie), Chloe.

** JerkAssWoobie: Topsy, Cassie.

* FairForItsDay: The novel is an example in regard to UnfortunateImplications. The blacks are caricatures, 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 to respond to it. Over the years, supporters of slavery created InNameOnly adaptions of the story 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. ]]

* FairForItsDay: The novel is an example in regard to UnfortunateImplications. The blacks are caricatures, 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 to respond to it. Over the years, supporters of slavery created InNameOnly adaptions of the story that used the worst of the blackface caricatures. It was these characterizations that stuck in the public's consciousness and gave rise to the concept of [[UncleTomfoolery "Uncle Tom"]]. The Uncle Tom character featured in the novel was anything ''but'' the stereotype: he was killed for ''adamantly defying his cruel owner'' in order to ensure freedom for some fellow slaves.

* MemeticMutation: A common idiom that came from the book: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin#Other_characters as noted in Wikipedia]], the minor character Topsy "professes ignorance of both God and a mother, saying 'I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.'" The phrase "grew like Topsy" is still sometimes used as a synonym for rapid or unplanned growth.
* OvershadowedByControversy: Not many people would claim to have read the book. It is widely known though that there was intense controversy of its publishing, particularly in years leading up to the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar.

* ValuesDissonance: Aside from the obvious racial issues, there is one point where we're recounted the story of a pair of boys stoning a kitten to death, their mother gets [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristically]] upset, but they never stone a kitten to death again, so lesson learned. It's treated as a case of "boys will be boys", quite at odds with today where a woman putting a cat in a bin was treated with world-wide rage.

* FairForItsDay: The novel is an example in regard to UnfortunateImplications. The blacks are caricatures, 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 to respond to it. Over the years, supporters of slavery created InNameOnly adaptions of the story that used the worst of the blackface caricatures. It was these characterizations that stuck in the public's consciousness and gave rise to the concept of [[UncleTomfoolery "Uncle Tom"]]. The Uncle Tom character featured in the novel was anything '''but''' the stereotype: he was killed for ''adamantly defying his cruel owner'' in order to ensure freedom for some fellow slaves.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The term "Uncle Tom" comes from the minstrel show version, written by people who had nostalgia for the slave trade. This has led people who cannot be bothered to read a book or at least look it up in an encyclopedia or Wikipedia before forming an opinion about it, to assume the book is an apologia for slavery.
* FairForItsDay: The book is an example in regard to UnfortunateImplications--the blacks are caricatures, but they're at least treated as human beings, and the whole point of the novel was to condemn slavery. When released, the novel outraged the Southerners, and an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tom_literature entire genre]] was created to respond to it. Over the years, supporters of slavery created InNameOnly adaptions of the story that used the worst of the Blackface caricatures. It was these characterizations that stuck in the public's consciousness and gave rise to the concept of the [[UncleTomFoolery "Uncle Tom"]] (the black man who was subservient to white people and was seen as a "sell out" to his own race). The book's Uncle Tom character was anything '''but''' the stereotype: he was killed for ''adamantly defying his cruel owner'' in order to ensure freedom for some fellow slaves.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Yes, there's one of these in the whole drama. More exactly, the extremely sly and tricky antics that the Shelby slaves use to delay the slave trader who purchased Harry and Tom so they can help Eliza run away with little Harry.

* MemeticMutation:
** The phrase "sold down the river" is a metaphor for betrayal in modern American English, but most modern Americans don't know its origin.
*** The term was also used before the book; in fact, the modern map of Washington, D.C. (the part south of the Potomac being cut off) comes from when Washington abolished slavery, and those districts seceded. Today, the old slave market is now a farmer's market. Since going down the river was to an area which, if nothing else, made it more difficult to leave the United States, yeah.
** Another common idiom that came from the book: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin#Other_characters as noted in That Other Wiki]], the minor character Topsy "professes ignorance of both God and a mother, saying 'I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.'" The phrase "grew like Topsy" is still sometimes used as a synonym for rapid or unplanned growth.

* ValuesDissonance: Aside from the obvious racial issues; there is one point where we're recounted the story of a pair of boys stoning a kitten to death, their mother gets [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristically]] upset, but they never stone a kitten to death again, so lesson learned. It's treated as a case of "boys will be boys", quite at odds with today where a woman putting a cat in a bin was treated with world-wide rage.

** IronWoobie: Uncle Tom, Evangeline, George Shelby
** JerkAssWoobie: Topsy, Cassie
** StoicWoobie: St. Clair, possibly Ophelia, George Harris
** TheWoobie: Emmeline, Eliza (who then goes IronWoobie), Chloe

* ValuesDissonance: Aside from the obvious racial issues; there is one point where we're recounted the story of a pair of boys stoning a kitten to death, their mother gets upset, but they never stone a kitten to death again, so lesson learned. It's treated as a case of "boys will be boys", quite at odds with today where a woman putting a cat in a bin was treated with world-wide rage.
** The mother didn't just get upset; she had been described as an extremely gentle and soft-hearted person, but finding out her sons had been so cruel made her angry enough to actually hit them and send them to bed without a meal. She did break down crying afterwards and the boys overheard, but the entire episode is what made the lasting impression - that what they did was terrible enough to make their mother that angry and heartbroken.

* {{Anvilicious}}: [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped But then again]]...

* StockholmSyndrome: Tom
* TearJerker: The whole book.

* FairForItsDay: The book is an example in regard to UnfortunateImplications--the blacks are caricatures, but they're at least treated as human beings, and the whole point of the novel was to condemn slavery. When released, the novel outraged the Southerners, and an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tom_literature entire genre]] was created to respond to it. Over the years, supporters of slavery created InNameOnly adaptions of the story that used the worst of the Blackface caricatures. It was these characterizations that stuck in the public's consciousness and gave rise to the concept of the [[UncleTomFoolery "Uncle Tom"]] (the black man who was subservient to white people and was seen as a "sell out" to his own race). The book's Uncle Tom character was anything '''but''' the stereotype: he was killed for ''repeteadly defying his cruel owner to help other slaves''.