... . The pickaninny image gave Negro child actors the possibility to get a place in the pantheon of cinema. In general the pickaninny was a harmless, little screwball creation whose eyes popped, whose hair stood on end with the last excitement, and whose antics were pleasant and diverting. In Edison`s peep shows ... bad children, inky kids, smoky kids, black lambs, and chubbie ebonies. In all versions of Harriet Beecher Stowe`s novel Uncle Tom`s Cabin Topsy, the little slave child, was shown as a funny and droll pickaninny, who soon became one of the audience`s favorites, used for the dramat...

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