... Life and Gone with the Wind. Closely related to the Mammy was the character of the Sambo. The Sambo was a simple, docile and laughing black man who was carefree and irresponsible. He paved the way for the Jim Crow character first introduced by T.D. Rice as an Ethiopian Delineator. The Sambo and Jim ... that let the American public believe that slavery could not have been that heinous and atrocious if the slaves themselves did not dissent. The obvious character to follow would be the Coon who was closely related to the Sambo in intelligence, or lack thereof. The Coon was an urban free ....

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