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How did Uncle Tom (the character from Stowe’s Uncle Toma Cabin)come to be an insult and a condemnation of betrayal by blacks to other blacks , when the character and book Uncle Tom is a morally righteous man who even attempts to escape slavery to freedom ?

by /u/Thefishlord in /r/AskHistorians

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