Even the Golden Age of Hollywood contributed to this erasure. The archetype of the "happy slave," epitomized by characters in Gone with the Wind (1939), reduced enslaved individuals to loyal sidekicks who actively supported the system that oppressed them. In this era, popular media functioned not as a mirror to history, but as a shield, protecting audiences—specifically white audiences—from the moral horror of the American slave trade.

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