... ). Unlike the Baker & Farwell blackface minstrelsy shows, where Aunt Jemima-"mammy--was a white man dressed in drag, the new Aunt Jemima would reek of authenticity and realism "people would buy the pancake mix because it was made by a bona fide slave woman. Images of the Old South were further romanticized and elevated as the main promotional strategy for the R.T. Davis ... for. It was a time period where their ancestors were brutally subjected to racial perversity and discrimination. A period in America's history where Blacks were considered inferior beings and treated like meaningless ...

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