HIST 2930 Lecture 6: Week 6-The Peculiar Institution-Enslaved Women
5 Dec 2016
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October 19 - the peculiar institution: enslaved women: the enslaved women in american pop culture, aunt jemima - conceptualized in 1889. Underwood) owned the pearl milling co & they made a ready to make pancake mix, and wanted a face to promote it. One night they were visiting a vaudeville house in. Missouri seeing a minstrel show (white people wearing blackface, playing up stereotypes about black people) During the show, there was a performance to a song called old aunt jemima". & two of the performers were wearing bandanas and aprons, playing up the idea of the southern cook. They liked what the image stood for: nostalgia, homeyness; came up with aunt. She was the very first living trademark. They hired a woman named nancy green to play aunt jemima; she was a former slaves. They had her travel around the states promoting their pancakes.
