[Ads-l] Antedating of "Uncle Tomism"

[Stephen Goranson]

Well,  a depiction of [anti-] Uncle Tomism. The New York writer may not have known your rules.

Speaking of President Lincoln (while awaiting exit of you-know-who) Fred's excellent New Yale Book of Quotations has a 1911 version given in 1896 Atlantic Monthly  78 (August 1896): 148 as  'Is this the little woman who made the great war?'
(Supposedly on Dec. 2, 1862 or November?).

sg


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Subject: Re: Antedating of "Uncle Tomism"

I'm a bit confused by this reference: it doesn't really make sense in
the conventional meaning of "Uncle Tomism," and seems simply to refer to
Cruikshank's involvement in the publication as illustrator.

Rich Lowenthal


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Date 2/9/2026 14:58:15
Subject Antedating of "Uncle Tomism"

>Uncle Tomism (OED 1863)
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>1852 Literary World 20 Nov. 329 ff. (ProQuest)
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>Uncle Tomism has a new recruit in no less distinguished and artistacal a person than George Cruikshank.
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>Fred Shapiro
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