The story of the Little Black Sambo, written by Helen Bannerman in 1899, is an Indian tale involving a young boy outwitting tigers (literally making butter out of them which his mum makes into pancakes!)
The story was popular for half a century before being reconsidered as racial and contained dark iconography (the stylised drawings of black people with over-exagerrated features and colour in the 20th century)
Below are examples of illustrations for the original story
John R Neill
Gustaf Tenggren
C.Carey.Cloud (1934)
In 1996 Fred Marcellino rewrote the story to the, the story of the Little Babaji, and removed all racial slurs and updated the illustrations.
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