The Negroe has long been the clown of history, the football of anthropology and the slave of Industry.
-W.E.B. Du Bois
In being recruited as a slave, the negroe was not merely severed from his own culture, he was psychologically shocked by the process, so that he was bound to become dependent upon his master and his master's culture and social system in every possible way. Having lost the means of fending for himself in the world, he was forced into a Sambo stance, doing what his master bade him, being apathetically grateful for any kindness, and not even aspiring to any kind of independent life.