Blackface Minstrelsy 1830-1852


COMPOSITE IMAGE: left: T. Rice as Jim Crow,
Courtesy Harvard Theatre Collection, The Houghton Library;
right: Topsy, illustration from Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Hammatt Billings, Clifton Waller Barrett Collection.
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