Siamese Connection (1879, 1884); Underdog (1884)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Baker, John wrote:

>         So "Sambo," as a derogatory name for Africans and
> African-Americans, was not taken from The Story of Little Black Sambo by
> Helen Bannerman (1899)?  (Little Black Sambo was from India, but the
> early illustrations portrayed Sambo as stereotypically African.)
>         I guess not.  Westlaw has examples of Sambo as a name for slaves
> as early as 1802.  And then there is this odd passage from the April

The OED has this name cited from 1704.

Fred Shapiro


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