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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) December 28, 1851: 6:3.
Info in Record: News article about the sinking of a ship called the Tyendenaga en route from Quebec to London. Two “coloured” men (including the ship’s cook) are listed amongst the deceased.
Era (London) May 9, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) August 22, 1847: 11:2.
Era (London) February 8, 1846: 4:2.
Era (London) March 28, 1852: 12: 1.
Era (London) July 6, 1851: 15:1.
Era (London) July 22, 1849: 11:2.
Era (London) May 7, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) April 15, 1849: 13:3.
Era (London) August 31, 1851: 11:2.
Info in Record: Piece discussing the dramatic entertainments on offer at Banbury, which notes that Othello is one of the stock pieces of the current season (specific performance dates not provided).
Era (London) November 25, 1849: 12:2.
Era (London) April 25, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) May 18, 1851: 11:1.
Era (London) November 15, 1846: 11:3.
Era (London) February 23, 1851: 10:4.
Era (London) November 26, 1848: 12:4.
Era (London) June 4, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) January 14, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) September 1, 1844 : 5:3-4.
Era (London) October 1, 1848: 1:3.
Era (London) March 19, 1843: 4:1.
Era (London) August 10, 1851: 5:2.
Era (London) December 20, 1846: 8:2.
Document Note: reprinted (in this paper) on December 27, 1846 (p8)
Era (London) March 7, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) April 7, 1844: 4:2.
Era (London) December 5, 1847: 12:1.
Era (London) October 21, 1849: 11:2.
Era (London) November 30, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) March 30, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) June 1, 1851: 11:1.
Era (London) September 14, 1851: 1:3.
Era (London) May 3, 1846: 5:4.
Era (London) June 24, 1843: 4:1.
Era (London) January 5, 1851: 10:4.
Info in Record: Under ‘November’ in Year in Review: “General fast and day of prayer and humiliation at Jamaica, in consequence of the ravages of the cholera and awful state of destitution throughout the island.”
Era (London) September 9, 1849: 1:2.
Era (Journal) March 5, 1845: 5:4.
Era (London) July 13, 1845: 6:1.
Era (London) June 7, 1846: 12:4.
Info in Record: Racial joke. Punch line: “Oh, he was as black as black can be. Why, father, charcoal would make a white mark on him!”)
Era (London) March 31, 1844: 6:3-4.
Era (London) April 6, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) June 6, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) November 23, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) March 2, 1851: 11: 2.
Era (London) September 3, 1848: 11:2.
Era (London) January 23, 1848: 1:4.
Document Note: article reprinted (in this paper) on January 30 (8:3), February 6 (8:3), February 20 (8:2), 1848.
Era (London) July 13, 1851: 8:3.
Info in Record: Another news article about the Kaffir War.
Era (London) July 22, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) January 21, 1844 : 4:2.
Era (London) May 14, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) April 22, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) July 19, 1846: 13:2.
Era (London) October 5, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) August 31, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) November 25, 1849: 12:3.
Era (London) May 2, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) May 25, 1851: 1:2.
Era (London) October 17, 1847: 11:3.
Era (London) November 8, 1848: 11:1.
Era (London) January 14, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) January 4, 1846: 1:1.
Info in Record: Advertisement for the January number “Bentley’s Miscellany” including under “Outpourings” by D. Canter “The Unwashed Othello”
Era (London) January 19, 1851: 9:4.
Era (London) October 1, 1848: 11:2.
Era (London) March 16, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) January 11, 1846: 6:1.
Era (London) August 20, 1848: 11:3.
Era (London) April 4, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) April 4, 1847: 8:1.
Info in Record: Notice that Signor Lanza’s has planned a series of 12 Easter concerts in various parts of London and its vicinity. The New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders are amongst the acts booked to appear at these concerts.
Era (London) September 29, 1850: 11:3.
Era (London) February 9, 1851: 11:4.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Dramatic Days & Times: “since our last” Venue Name: “Clitheroe” Program Info: “The Merchant of Venice” Other: audience description/review reception
Era (London) October 21, 1849: 11:2.
Era (London) January 29, 1843: 4:1.
Document Note: Repeated (in this paper), with slight variations, on February 5, 1843 (4:1).
Era (London) June 8, 1851: 1:1.
Era (London) December 3, 1843: 6:1.
Info in Record: An excerpt from the New York Spirit of the Times, which asserts that “Jim Crow Rice is just now ‘the big dog of the tan-yard’ and through the week has ‘done most of the barking’” at The Chatham Theatre (New York).
Era (London) January 19, 1851: 3:2.
Info in Record: Mention of a favorite horse in Sussex’s team last year, named “Nigger”.
Era (London) December 17, 1848: 1:1.
Era (London) September 30, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) March 19, 1848: 8:2.
Era (London) September 28, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) September 9, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) July 20, 1851: 13:1.
Era (London) April 6, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) January 28, 1849: 12.
Era (London) June 6, 1847: 11:2.
Era (London) February 8, 1846: 6:2.
Era (London) August 22, 1847: 8:3.
Info in Record: Another piece about the ongoing dispute between Ira Aldridge and the manager of the Theatre Royal, Chichester. The author suggests that Aldridge is, in fact, in the right. See attached document scan for further particulars.
Era (London) June 2, 1844: 2:4.
Info in Record: News article about clashes in Philadelphia between Native American and Irish factions
Era (London) December 21, 1851: 12: 3 .
Era (London) June 22, 1851: 6:4.
Era (London) August 6, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) July 22, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) May 7, 1848: 1:3.
Era (London) May 6, 1849: 1:1.
Era (London) October 1, 1843: 6:1.
Era (London) October 19, 1851: 12:4.
Era (London) December 2, 1849: 1:2.
Info in Record: Repeated (in this paper), with slight variations, on December 9, 23 (1:2) and 16 (1:1), 1849. Info in Record: Advertisement for a piece based on Othello, entitled “Beware of Jealousy; or, The Othello of Private Life”. This adaptation, which is to be performed at the City of London Theatre during the ensuing week, doesn’t seem to have featured black face performance.
Era (London) May 2, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) August 31, 1851: 1:4.
Era (London) December 7, 1845: 6:1.
Era (London) October 17, 1847: 12:1.
Era (London) January 14, 1849: 12:1.