“...I found most lie about reading Uncle Toms Cabin. It is a wonderful book and if read, you will be confused as to why being called an Uncle Tom is an insult rather than praise.”
That is interesting! I know this book was in my grandmother’s house, but I never read it, and I don’t think I have it now. But what you say makes me want to read it.
It’s a very important book, isn’t it? Even if it’s not great lit or whatever.
Yes, an important book. Legend says that when Harriet Beacher Stowe met President Lincoln, he remarked to her: “So, you are the lady that started this damned war”
The book was read and enraged many by its depiction of slavery and its abuses and Uncle Tom, a slave, played an important part in the book. He is truly a Christ-like character because of his Christian charity and forgiving spirit, much like Christ forgave those that killed and tortured him, so did Tom.
That is why it is an insult to the book, to Uncle Tom, to drag down his spirituality and turn it into some sort of terrible racial turn-coat.