BLACK MAMMY Southern NEGRO FOLK ART Africa Slave Tales CIVIL WAR Slavery ANTIQUE

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BLACK MAMMY Southern NEGRO FOLK ART Africa Slave Tales CIVIL WAR Slavery ANTIQUE:
$61.00

BLACKMAMMY:

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This sale is for an original1885FIRST EDITIONof \"BLACK MAMMY: A SOUTHERN ROMANCE\" by William Lightfoot Visscher, published by H. J.Smith Publishing Co., Chicago.

YOU\'LL LOVE THIS BOOK!!!

The Mammy caricature was created just priorto the Civil War as a Southern rebuttal to Northern charges of sexual predation on black women. She was a counterbalance tothe young light-skinned black mistress.

All sorts of feelings and ideas are associated with her stereotype. She not only fed and raised white children, but often mediated between whites and blacks. \"Miss Scarlett, I don\'t know nothin\' \'bout birthin\' babies,\" is the classic line of Prissy in \"Gone with the Wind,\" but Hattie McDaniel, who portrayed Mammy, did know midwifing and child raising and much more.

Nurturing and protective, self sacrificing, long suffering, wise, often world weary but never bitter, Mammy mixed kindness with sternness and wreathed her own identity inside the weight of heartiness, her own sexuality inside her role as surrogate mother, teacher and cook. Her outside life, especially her love life, is almost always problematic. If she has children, they tend to be treated more brusquely than the white children in her charge. And she never escapes her sense of the limitations of being black.

This charming book contains fifteen African-American folktale poems.These stories offer a pompousview of relations between white southerners and their slaves. The slaves are often imbued with child-like qualities and their owners are benevolent. The stories are accompanied herein byover 16 black and whiteILLUSTRATIONS. Some of the storiesin this book are:Black Mammy, My Village Home, Gypsy, Aunt Ghloe\'s Greed and more.

CONDITION OF THE BOOK:

Published in 1885, this book is inVERYGOOD CONDITION!for its age and especially to be118 YEARS OLD!!!ALL PAGES ARE PRESENT!!! and tightly bound with NO TEARS!!! or stray intext markings. The hinges are like-new, as pictured.It measures 5 1/2\" x8\" andis complete with 108 pages.

This is a book that you may not get another chance to own again so...GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!!

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