Samboism
English
Noun
Samboism (uncountable)
- A servile attitude adopted by black people toward white authority.
- 1970, George C. Rogers, The history of Georgetown County, South Carolina (page 193)
- Botsford wrote Sambo and Toney, which was designed to teach Christian lessons to the slaves, or, as a Negro today would say, it taught the essence of Samboism.
- 1994, William Freehling, The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War
- By skeptically observing whites' pretense to paternalism and slaves' pretense to Samboism, the slaveholder became mistrustful of everyone's performances.
- 1970, George C. Rogers, The history of Georgetown County, South Carolina (page 193)
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