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Jim Crow
Jim Crow is a racist depiction of African-Americans and their culture. The character was created by Thomas D. Rice in the 1820s and was based on a folk trickster named Jim Crow. Rice also adapted and popularized a traditional slave song called "Jump Jim Crow". The character typically dresses in rags and wears a bed hat and torn shoes. Rice applied blackface makeup made of burnt cork to his face and hands and impersonated a very nimble and irreverently witty African-American field-hand.