Uncle Tom vs Black

Black vs Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom and Black both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Uncle Tom	Yes	No	No	No
Black	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Black is a hypernym of Uncle Tom; that is, Black is a word with a broader meaning than Uncle Tom:

Uncle Tom: (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
Black: a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today

Other hypernyms of Uncle Tom include African-American, Negro, Negroid, Black person, blackamoor.

Uncle Tom (noun)	Black (noun)
a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe	a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe	popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites	British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

Difference between Uncle Tom and Black

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