Undercover Black Man's Contribution

Sambo's Good Time Is Come......

In honor of President-Elect Barack Obama, I’d like to share a page from America’s racial and political past.

In 1864, after Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in a landslide, someone using the name “L. Seaman” wrote an eight-page tract titled “What Miscegenation Is! and What We Are to Expect Now that Mr. Lincoln is Re-elected.”

It was a snarky vision of a world turned upside down. And it dripped with contempt for colored folks (referred to by slave names such as “Sambo,” “Cuffy” and “Pompey”).

For your reading pleasure, I’ve put an excerpt below.

You can read the whole thing online by following this link to Cornell University’s Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection.