As part of Black History Month let us look at the term “Uncle Tom.” It is a slur used to disparage a Black person who is humiliatingly subservient or deferential to white people. Though they ...

Wilson, a Black journalist, educator ... Included are copies of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom’s Cabin''; Phyllis Wheatley’s "Poems on Various Subjects''; a silhouette attributed ...