... of using blackface Anglo-Americans to impose the models for what Afro-Americans were to represent in early film shorts made in America before World War One, a tradition taken over from theatre. The function of projecting black faces on the screen was more or less to teach ... "white massas", remaining "hearty, submissive, stoic, generous, selfless, and oh-so-very kind" . After the publishing of Uncle Tom's Cabin the movie world was suddenly stuffed with Afro-Americans who embraced slavery, loved the Union but not the principle of Abolition, expressed their deepest humanity through loyal s...

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