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In the movie Django Unchained the house slave Stephen is mortified that a black man is going to stay in the "big house", partly because he believes they will have to burn the sheets that Django used afterword. Was this really something they believed in the Antebellum south?

by /u/Obtainer_of_Goods in /r/AskHistorians

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