Sambo is a derogatory label for a person of Black-African descent in the Spanish language. Historically, it is a name in American English derived from a Spanish term for a person of three quarters African and one quarter European ancestry typically the offspring of a Black person and a Mulatto. After the Civil War, during and after the Jim Crow era the term was used in conversation, print advertising and household items as a pejorative descriptor for Black people of Black African descent. The term is considered offensive in American and British English.