Uncle Toms And Sambos

Hassan I. Nurullah of Detroit,  a Christian convert from Islam who writes under the name Digital Publius, has pointed out that Uncle Tom was a Christ-figure; and was a heroic character who stood up to oppressors.

His name was made a term of derision by an embittered Malcolm X and helped grease the skids for filling our prisons with young black men and our inner cities with unwed black mothers.

Nurullah’s article can be found here or at Nurullah’s website here

Uncle Toms And Sambos

Uncle Toms And Sambos

 

4 thoughts on “Uncle Toms And Sambos”

  1. Unfortunately, the term Uncle Tom doesn’t come from the book. Uncle Tom was a slave named Josiah Hensen. Josiah informed on slaves getting ready to run away and helped to catch runaways. He had a change of heart after he found out his master was going to sell him “down south” Mississippi or Louisiana to work in the rice fields. Instead, he escaped up North. That’s what an uncle tom is: a person who curries favors with his master by turning on others, but doesn’t want to be included in the same group as the others.

  2. Where did you hear that? Hensen was a fellow who escaped slavery, fled to Canada and became an abolitionist.

    It is true that he was the inspiration for Uncle Tom’s Cabin but he certainly wasn’t someone who was in good standing with the slave owners.

    For awhile he was an overseer so maybe that’s what the claim is based on, but in the book Uncle Tom was appointed as overseer too and that’s where the drama comes from.

    He refused to do evil and was beaten to death for it.

    Hensen appears to have just run away, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.

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