Black person
Black person noun - A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).
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Uncle Tom and black person are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "Uncle Tom" with "Black person", this phrases are similar.
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom noun - (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
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Black person and Uncle Tom are semantically related. You can use "Black person" instead a noun phrase "Uncle Tom".
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The trope's name is derived from "Uncle Tom," a common slang term for a black person who is excessively subservient to white people, despite the original Uncle Tom (of Uncle Tom's Cabin) being anything but subservient, comic, or cowardly.
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Uncle Tom and Black person. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 30, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/black_person/uncle_tom
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