![]() ![]() Slave masters attributed the slaves' poor The slave registered his protest against slaveryīy running away, and, when that was not possible, by slowing work, doing shoddy work,ĭestroying work tools, and faking illness. Often described slaves as "slow," "lazy," "wants pushing," "an eye servant," and "trifling." 1 The master and the slave operated with different motives: the master desired to obtainįrom the slave the greatest labor, by any means the slave desired to do the least The coon caricature was born during American slavery. Shooting crap, or butchering the English language. Lazy, subhuman creatures good for nothing more than eating watermelons, stealing chickens, The pure coons emerged as no-account niggers, those unreliable, crazy, It took his character almost a minute to say: "I'se be catchin' ma feets nah,īoss." Donald Bogle (1994), a cinema historian, lambasted the coon, as played by Stepinīefore its death, the coon developed into the most blatantly degrading of all black The prototypical movie coon was Stepin Fetchit, the slow-talking, slow-walking, self-demeaning ![]() Statedĭifferently, the coon was a Sambo gone bad. Were increasingly identified with young, urban blacks who disrespected whites. With older, docile blacks who accepted Jim Crow laws and etiquette whereas coons He was, simply, too lazy or tooĬynical to attempt to change his lowly position. Worked as a servant, was not happy with his status. If blacks were contented, even happy, being servants? The coon, although he often How bad could these institutions have been, asked the racialists, Indeed, Sambo was offered as a defense for slaveryĪnd segregation. ![]() Sambo was portrayedĪs a loyal and contented servant. The coon actedĬhildish, but he was an adult albeit a good-for-little adult. Sambo was depictedĪs a perpetual child, not capable of living as an independent adult. The coon differed from the Sambo in subtle but important ways. Was portrayed as a lazy, easily frightened, chronically idle, inarticulate, buffoon. Name itself, an abbreviation of raccoon, is dehumanizing. The coon caricature is one of the most insulting of all anti-black caricatures. ![]()
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