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But historically, neither of those defenses is actually true.
Zwarte Piet was originally written as a black slave character, and the blackface tradition was invented fairly recently.
Though St. Nicholas folklore had been celebrated since the Middle Ages, there was no slave character involved until 1850, when this guy — a Dutch schoolteacher named Jan Schenkman
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