Samboism

English

Etymology

From Sambo +‎ -ism.

Noun

Samboism (uncountable)

1. A servile attitude adopted by black people toward white authority.

   Synonyms: Uncle Tommery, Uncle Tommism

   • 1970, George C. Rogers, The history of Georgetown County, South Carolina, page 193:

     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.

   • 1994, William Freehling, The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War:

     By skeptically observing whites' pretense to paternalism and slaves' pretense to Samboism, the slaveholder became mistrustful of everyone's performances.

See also

• Uncle Tom

Anagrams

• mosambis