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"Sambo"
clock, c. 1875.
(Chicago Historical Society)
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As white
Americans grew weary of Reconstruction, derogatory images of African Americans
became more prevalent and accepted in the North as well as in the South.
A mantle
clock made in Connecticut portrays a black man as "Sambo," a
naive, clownish figure that remained a familiar American stereotype well
into the next century.
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