Stereotypes: early-middle 1800s
In general, lazy, uneducable (despite laws forbidding teaching slaves to read), happy, simple, child-like ìdarkiesî content as slaves, but also savage and in need of discipline
Not, however, ìdoomedî to perish as the Natives because too necessary to the economy
Black men as silent, happy servants; black women as ìmammy,î lovingly protective of white families
Enslavement ìsavedî ìsavageî Africans by ìdomesticatingî (and Christianizing) them
Such views ignored the nature of the work performed by most Africans in America, as well as misreading the lives they lead as slaves and domestic servants