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The following bibliographic sources were used in JUBA's research. Specific bibliographic sources are also linked from individual person, event, venue and troupe pages.

The Bibliography contains all sources used to compile the Early Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain Database. At this stage of our data entry, most documentation you will find here will be from nineteenth century daily and weekly British journals, searched by our Research Participants; all such entries are linked to one or more of the database entries: Event, Individual, Troupe, Venue, Documentation.

Era (London) May 28, 1843: 6:3.
Info in Record: Two brief examples of supposed “negro dialogue”, written in the “slave dialect” common to blackface minstrel performances.
Era (London) January 5, 1845: 4:1.
Info in Record: Editorial about the attempted annexation of Texas by the US. Objects to the US annexing Texas as ‘the Slave Trade would be encouraged there to an unlimited extent, and the dollar loving souls of the Americans would gloat alike in profits of land and human blood.”
Friend (London) June, 1847: 119: ?.
Info in Record: Description of an “Anti-Slavery Meeting of Friends” that took place "at Gracechurch Street," “After the sitting on Fourth-day evening, the 26th”
Friend (London) June, 1847: 119: 2.
Info in Record: Heading: Anti Slavery Meeting of Friends
Friend (London) September, 1846: 163.
Info in Record: Article about "Anti-Slavery Feeling in Virginia"
Friend (London) September, 1846: 164.
Info in Record: "Memoir of Rebecca Butler, a Coloured Girl." Details of the death of Ms. Butler in prison.
Theatrical Journal (London) February 25, 1843: 64:1.
Info in Record: In the Chit Chat column under “Good Farming:” “Sambo, is your master a good farmer?” O, yes, massa, fuss rate farmer – he make two crops in one year.” “How is that Sambo?” “Why, he sell all his hay in de fall, and make money once; den in de spring he sell de hides of cattle dat die for the want of de hay, and make money twice.”
Theatrical Journal (London) August 8, 1846: 249:1-250:1.
Info in Record: A piece about the value of relaxation and repose, which quickly takes on a political tenor. Amongst other things, it includes the following: “We may be termed in some measure a ‘facetious nation;’ we pay millions to emancipate the black slave, whilst we do much to rivet his fetter on our own countrymen, making them more slaves than those to whom we presented joy and freedom.”
Theatrical Journal (London) July 3, 1847: 209-210:1.
Theatrical Observer (London) September 18, 1844: 1-2.
Info in Record: Account of Actor George Frederick Cooke berating his audience, making reference to the abolition movement: