英语词汇uncle tom的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Uncle Tom. Everyone knows that Uncle Tom comes from the character in Harriet Beecher’s Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the immensely popular American antislavery novel that caused President Lincoln to say on meeting Mrs. Stowe, “Is this the lit- tle woman whose book made such a great war?” Mrs. Stowe de- picted Uncle Tom as simple, easygoing, and servile, willing to put up with anything, though it should be remembered that she intended him as a noble, high-minded, devout Christian and that he is flogged to death by the brutal overseer Simon Legree at the end of the book for bravely refusing to reveal the hiding place of Cassie and Emmaline, two female slaves. Few people know that Mrs. Stowe’s model for Uncle Tom was a real-life slave named Josiah Henson, born in Maryland in 1789, who wrote a widely read autobiographical pamphlet. Henson was far from an Uncle Tom in the term’s recent sense. Like many slaves, he served as the overseer, or manager, of a plantation be- fore he escaped to Canada. Once free, he started a prosperous sawmill, founded a trade school for blacks, whites, and Indians and helped over 100 slaves escape to Canada. When he jour- neyed to England on business, the archbishop of Canterbury was so impressed with his speech and learning that he asked him what university he had studied at. “The University of Ad- versity,” Henson replied.

词汇	uncle tom
词源	Uncle Tom. Everyone knows that Uncle Tom comes from the character in Harriet Beecher’s Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the immensely popular American antislavery novel that caused President Lincoln to say on meeting Mrs. Stowe, “Is this the lit- tle woman whose book made such a great war?” Mrs. Stowe de- picted Uncle Tom as simple, easygoing, and servile, willing to put up with anything, though it should be remembered that she intended him as a noble, high-minded, devout Christian and that he is flogged to death by the brutal overseer Simon Legree at the end of the book for bravely refusing to reveal the hiding place of Cassie and Emmaline, two female slaves. Few people know that Mrs. Stowe’s model for Uncle Tom was a real-life slave named Josiah Henson, born in Maryland in 1789, who wrote a widely read autobiographical pamphlet. Henson was far from an Uncle Tom in the term’s recent sense. Like many slaves, he served as the overseer, or manager, of a plantation be- fore he escaped to Canada. Once free, he started a prosperous sawmill, founded a trade school for blacks, whites, and Indians and helped over 100 slaves escape to Canada. When he jour- neyed to England on business, the archbishop of Canterbury was so impressed with his speech and learning that he asked him what university he had studied at. “The University of Ad- versity,” Henson replied.
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