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Idris Elba stars in new western that rinses the whitewash out – Sydney Morning Herald
This cowboy romp finally brings black men and women to the foreground.
Historians estimate that as many as one in four cowboys were black. (The word cowboy originated as a racist term for a black ranch worker. A white worker was a cowhand.) Samuel notes there were decades of the Old West after slavery ended in 1865. The iconic…
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