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An Aunt Jemima ad featuring Nancy Green, the original Aunt Jemima, that was in the New York Tribune, Nov. 7, 1909. New York Tribune via Library of Congress. Long before she pioneered that famous mix, Green was born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
Aunt Jemima was an American breakfast brand for pancake mix, table syrup, and other breakfast food products. The original version of the pancake mix was developed in 1888–1889 by the Pearl Milling Company and was advertised as the first "ready-mix" cooking product. [1] [2]
In 1893, she was introduced as Aunt Jemima at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in the guise of a plantation slave, where it was her job to operate a pancake-cooking display. Her amiable personality and talent as a cook for the Walker family, whose children grew up to become Chicago Circuit Judge Charles M. Walker and Dr. Samuel ...
The original Aunt Jemima came from a caricature on a vaudeville advertising lithograph. Aunt appeared as a means to address enslaved older Black women in the American South prior to the Civil War, as did Uncle for their older male counterparts. Younger Black people considered it a term of respect at the time.
Nancy Green (March 4, 1834 – August 30, 1923) was an American former slave, who, as "Aunt Jemima", was one of the first African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark. The Aunt Jemima recipe was not her recipe, but she became the advertising world's first living trademark.
Aunt Jemima is based on a real woman, Nancy Green, who was a storyteller, cook, and missionary worker. Nancy Green actually worked with the Aunt Jemima brand until 1923.
The image on pancake boxes and syrup dispensers was originally inspired by the song “ Old Aunt Jemima,” which was popularized in the 1870s by Billy Kersands, a Black comedian, and performed,...