American Toby Jug Museum 

Mammy 3/4 body toby jug produced by Severn Ceramic Studios of Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1920. A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting black women who work in a white family and nurse the family's children. The fictionalized mammy character is often visualized as a fat, dark-skinned woman with a motherly personality. The origin of the mammy figure stereotype is rooted in the history of slavery in the United States, as black slave women were often tasked with domestic and childcare work in white American slaveholding households.