John Wesley Blassingame is a scholar that is African American who looked through one section of society that historians have ignored with stereotypes. Blassingame was a professor at Yale University of America and Africa studies. Blassingame was the brightest historians of slavery in the Antebellum Plantation in the south. He was a prolific scholar that editorial boards He held taught at Howard University and is also a prolific scholar who served as a contributing editor for journals such as Black Scholar and as a member of the editorial boards of Southern studies and the Journal of Negro History. Throughout the year he mentored a generation of African American scholars at Yale. After that he did three decades of talking with fellow scholars…show more content… For the south what helped them with the economy was cotton plantation. Blassingame talks about that Americans at one of the most common stereotypes in American history and it is the word Sambo. This image is simple-minded, and the black man dates back at least as far as the colonization of America. This pervasive image of a simple-minded, docile black man dates back at least as far as the colonization of America. The word Sambo is a stereotype in slavery in the United States and the white slave owners would use that Sambo is a stereotype in slavery in the United States and the white slave owners would use that word for African-American males. Blasingame talks about how the Sambo depend on their master and seen to be lazy. Sambo were not born into slaves they have extended far beyond their bounds. It was there stereotype through the music, lyrics, literature, game and thousands of artifacts. Many white women and men throughout the country saw this image as a fat, grinning black man (ferris.edu). For African Americans it was shaping enduring attitudes that would go down for centuries…show more content… Sullivan explains that a person that has the most power is going to be rewarded and the individual action is going to be responsible for determining behavior. The Interpersonal theorists are the most important personality is self-esteem and the Blassingame’s theory is that a person's behavior is determined by the socially roles or the behavioral patterns expected of him in a situations. He analyzed different personality s types who worked faithfully as long as demands were reasonable. Blassingame talks about how the southern slavery messed up the slave culture by a race of Sambos. They all deepened on their masters and were called childlike slaves Slave narratives, historians can determine "the extent to which slaves acted the way their masters expected them to behave" and how the Sambo, along with the Nat and Jack personality types, can be misleading. He argues that the thinking of African American slaves were not submissive, docile and morally depressed (studymoose). He proved that African American slaves managed not only to create their own culture, but also to exhibit a variety of personality types beyond Sambo
