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Re-Thinking Uncle Tom by W. B. Allen 1 Re-Thinking Uncle Tom: Wrong Turns in Black History1 by W. B. Allen Michigan State University allenwi@msu.edu (Do not copy or cite without permission) Uncle Tom's Cabin never meant to create an "Uncle Tom." The late 20th century development that saw the name Uncle Tom become an epithet is one of the most harmful historical developments of that era. For it closed almost an entire country to the valuable example that could
virtue...is only a secondary manifestation of the recognition of virtue." [Brooks P. (1976). The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac Henry James Melodrama and the Mode of Excess. New Haven Yale University Press p. 27. Emphasis added.] 44 That Tom should travel through such wilderness is intrinsic to the melodramatic structure which typically includes "...a threat to virtue a situation--and most often a person--to cast its very survival into question..." [Ibid p. 29.] 45 UTC pp. 400-401. 46 The religious radicals are