 The book has often been considered to be a slur against Africans, and "Sambo" as a slur has certainly been used this way, though the now-defunct US restaurant chain Sambo's used iconography more in tune with a "Jungle Book" view of 19th-century India.Golliwog is a similarly enduring caricature, most often represented as a blackface doll, and dates to American children's books of the late 19th century.The character found great favor among the whites of Great Britain and Australia, as well, into the late 20th century.