[lbo-talk] Nader not the only one to say Uncle Tom

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Nov 6 14:36:24 PST 2008


Before nineteenth century Britons heard the phrase Uncle Tom to describe a collaborator with the oppressor, there was another name for it.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South there is a non-racial version of the outsider who sucks up to power, in the character who turns from mill-hand to become mill-owner. And what does Gaskell call her turncoat character? John Thornton



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