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Samboism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Sambo + -ism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A servile attitude adopted by black people toward white authority.
   • Botsford wrote Sambo and Toney, which was designed to teach Christian lessons to the slaves, or, as a Negro today would say, it taught the essence of Samboism. 1970, George C. Rogers, The history of Georgetown County, South Carolina, page 193:
   • By skeptically observing whites' pretense to paternalism and slaves' pretense to Samboism, the slaveholder became mistrustful of everyone's performances. 1994, William Freehling, The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War:

Relateds

Uncle Tom

Synonyms

Uncle Tommism · Uncle Tommery