Who is Uncle Tom? And why is he incorrectly used as an insult?
First published on March 20, 1895, the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by the abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe is largely considered to be one of the greatest American novels of all time. In fact, an article published by the Boston Morning Post the year that it was released even went so far as to claim that everybody in the country had either read it, was reading it, or was about to read it. Learn the story Josiah Henson…
