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No. Uncle Tom was a fictional character. Hariet Beecher Stowe was INSPIRED to create the character from memoirs written by an escaped slave living in Canada called Josiah Henson. After Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, Henson republised his memoirs as "The Memoirs of Uncle Tom".

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No, Uncle Tom was a fictional character in the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852. The character of Uncle Tom was meant to represent the plight of enslaved African Americans in the United States during the 19th century.

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