etymology of "tomboy"

Factual Questions
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I bet this has been covered before, so GREAT, this won’t take very long…

TOMBOY. A word to describe a girl/woman who generally appears to exhibit characteristics of the male gender. E.g., a girl who mostly wears a baseball cap, long pants, and is one hell of a shortstop. She has no interest in knitting or baking cookies, et cetera.

Is this word related at all to the near dated term “tom,” which used to describe a black man or woman who actively exhibited characteristics of white people/society, in an attempt to deny their own blackness? The root of which comes from “Uncle Tom,” as in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” a book by some guy written way back when.

Just a connection I made in class today when some professor or something was talking…
thanks for the insight

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According to Dictionary of Word Origins, the term tomboy originated in the 16th century, originally meant a ‘rude or boisterous boy’ and evolved to mean a ‘girl who behaves like a boisterous boy’ by the end of the 16th century.

Since the term “Uncle Tom” originates from the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Not the other way around…cite: according to this article), which was not published until 1852, it’s impossible for “tomboy” to be derived from “Uncle Tom”.