The Sapphire

This caricature is shown the most in the present day unknowingly. The Sapphire portrays black women as rude, loud, malicious, stubborn, and overbearing. This is where the Angry Black Woman stereotype originated from. Her primary targets were black men; she desired to dominate. They were first known as sassy mammies who ran their homes with an iron fist. Although in real life sassy mammies would've been rewarded with beatings, jail, or death for their outbursts, fictional ones were allowed this right because it showed that slavery and segregation were not overly oppressive.