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Sambo’s Legacy

Cover of "Sambo's Legacy'
Cover of “Sambo’s Legacy’

Source

University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature

Baldwin Call #

Baldwin Call #15h2779

Description

This book, which predates Helen Bannerman’s  The Story of Little Black Sambo by almost 30 years, features a black character named Sambo who speaks in stereotypical dialect.

Creator

Rev. Philip Bennett Power

Contributor(s) 

Publisher 

Macintosh

Publication Date

~1870

Format 

64 pages; black and white illustrations; 14 cm.

Language

English

 

Posted in Racist Periphery Children's Books