"If We Didn't Have Blacks..."

"We'd have to invent them," or so the sentiment went.

Helen Bannerman, a British woman, wrote Little Black Sambo in 1899. Black Sambo is the son of Black Jumbo, his father, and Black Mumbo all of whom are from India. Bannerman and her husband were posted to India in the late 1800’s. They employed an Indian nanny, whom her son loved and missed when the family was reposted back to England. So, his mother wro…