Look at the poem - .
Baa baa black sheep (
Have you any wool
Yes sir Yes Sir three bales full
One for the master
One for the dame and one
For the little boy who lives down the Hill
Baa Baa Baa
2006-08-23 19:18:40 · 11 answers · asked by white flag 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It was written in Britain
The 3 Bags of Wool represent Taxes the peasants ( black Sheep) has to pay and remember all the peasants were white but called black sheep's as they were made to pay for all.
One for the Master i.e the King
One for the Dame i.e Church
One for the Little boy i.e The Mayor of the Town
Hence it denotes that peasant was left with nothing after he paid to everyone.
2006-08-23 20:21:29 · answer #1 · answered by shady_man 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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Baa baa black sheep (
Have you any wool
Yes sir Yes Sir three bags full
One for the master
One for the dame and one
For the little boy who lives down the lane..
Baa Baa Baa
maybe, but look at the time period that it was written..also master wasnt always ued to refer to a slave owner... alot of rich men were called master
2006-08-24 02:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by Swtnis 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
bababa black sheep nursery rhyme and the man is talking to the actual lamb not a person. a black sheep was valuable back then because they are very uncommon even today.so naturally the wool was claimed before he even had any so when the man asks if had any he was naming off all the people that had paid for the wool off him.so he was telling the man nope not for u
2006-08-24 03:10:21 · answer #3 · answered by ryan s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not unless you made it that way, and please don't. We have enough racism without trying to see it in everything. It was written a longgggggggggggg time ago. Master can mean someones husband, not just in a "slave" manner, and every family seems to have a so called "Black" sheep. It's just a simple rhyme. Can't we just leave it at that?
2006-08-24 02:28:20 · answer #4 · answered by BONNI 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just because the words black and master appear in a child's rhyme doesn't mean it's racist.
short answer: not.
2006-08-24 02:24:43 · answer #5 · answered by altgrave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why? Is there economic discrimination against nonwhite sheeps, as in apartheid?
2006-08-24 02:38:27 · answer #6 · answered by hrh_gracee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its not a racist poem coz it's a SONG
2006-08-24 03:50:46 · answer #7 · answered by richel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it is not. But, if you read a lot into it, I guess you could make it seem that way to yourself.
2006-08-24 02:24:00 · answer #8 · answered by kitty fresh & hissin' crew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HI,,,, no more than the Uncle Remus stories are.....
2006-08-24 02:24:19 · answer #9 · answered by eejonesaux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not
2006-08-24 02:24:03 · answer #10 · answered by whn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋