Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor by Adena Spingarn PAPERBACK 9781503630628

Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor\nby Adena Spingarn\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Adena Spingarn\nTitle: Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781503630628\nISBN-10: 1503630625\nRRP: \u00A321.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nUncle 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 hi.