UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

a novel (1852) by the US writer Harriet Beecher Stowe which increased support for the movement to free slaves. It is about a kind slave called Tom who is badly treated and finally killed by Simon Legree . Tom’s daughter Little Eva also dies, and another well-known character in the novel is the slave child Topsy . The name ‘Uncle Tom’ is sometimes used as an insult to describe an African American who has too much respect for white people.