Samboism
nounEtymology From Sambo + -ism.
1
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:
- Related terms
- Uncle Tom