Antique money saving box

For sale on the local flea market.

 

Figures such as these exploited racial stereotypes prevalent in Europe, and were sometimes described as 'greedy nigger' money boxes. In order to justify the brutal enslavement of human beings, European society had to maintain racist ideologies. Europeans tried to demonstrate that Africans were savage and uncivilized so they could justify treating them inhumanely. Visual conventions developed that depicted African people crudely with exaggerated features.

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