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Samboism
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English
Etymology
From en Sambo ism.
Noun
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A servile attitude adopted by black people toward white authority.
en Uncle Tommery Uncle Tommism
en 1970 George C. Rogers The history of Georgetown County, South Carolina 193 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.
en 1994 William Freehling The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War By skeptically observing whites' pretense to paternalism and slaves' pretense to Samboism, the slaveholder became mistrustful of everyone's performances.
See also
en Uncle Tom
Anagrams
en abimmoss mosambis