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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) June 28, 1846: 2:4.
Info in Record: a racial joke entitled “A Black Joke” – “Never shake hands with niggers,’ said a Yankee to an Englishman. “Why not!” inquired John Bull. “Why not!” said Jonathan, “don’t you know the critters all-us sweat marking ink?”
Era (London) December 17, 1848: 11:2.
Era (London) May 28, 1848: 1:3.
Era (London) March 4, 1849: 1:3.
Era (London) November 17, 1850: 12:1.
Era (London) April 30, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) March 4, 1849: 11:1-2.
Era (London) April 7, 1844: 4:2.
Era (London) March 16, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) December 30, 1849: 13:4.
Era (London) April 19, 1846: 8:2.
Era (London) November 18, 1849: 4:1.
Era (London) April 18, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) May 11, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) February 16, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) April 23, 1848: 11:3.
Era (London) April 20, 1851: 11:1.
Era (London) March 16, 1851: 1:1.
Era (London) June 16, 1850: 12:3.
Era (London) May 5, 1850: 12: 2.
Era (London) June 18, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) February 14, 1847: 10:3.
Era (London) October 26, 1845: 6:1.
Era (London) September 30, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) August 23, 1846: 13:4.
Info in Record: report of freed slaves fundraising in order to buy back their minister.
Era (London) November 24, 1844: 6:2.
Era (London) March 14, 1852: 12:4.
Era (London) November 2, 1851: 9:1.
Info in Record: An article detailing events in “The Unjust Caffre War”.
Era (London) December 30, 1849: 10:2.
Era (London) October 25, 1846: 10:3.
Info in Record: Lengthy article about Ira Aldridge (Reflection on the quality of his work and call for his return to the London stage.)
Era (London) August 1, 1847: 6:3.
Era (London) July 30, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) December 24, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) January 16, 1848: 12:3.
Era (London) June 15, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) March 29, 1846: 4:2.
Era (London) August 12, 1849: 11:3.
Era (London) October 5, 1851: 5:3.
Era (London) January 17, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) April 16, 1848: 8:2.
Era (London) April 6, 1851: 1:1.
Era (London) February 2, 1851: 1:1.
Era (London) September 19, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) December 30, 1849: 10:2.
Era (London) March 29, 1846: 4:2.
Era (London) March 24, 1850: 8:3.
Info in Record: editorial on ineffectual British opposition to the slave-trade—they should be boycotting slave-grown products, not going to war against slave ships
Era (London) May 23, 1847: 8:3.
Era (London) September 14, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) July 27, 1851: 1:4.
Era (London) June 28, 1846: 4:4.
Info in Record: Report of South American newspaper publishing advertisement selling slaves
Era (London) January 2, 1848: 10:3.
“A Native Convert”. Record of conversation between the author and “Tom” with phonetic “black speak”
Era (London) July 1, 1849: 10:3.
Info in Record: Brief piece about a lawyer getting a “bed” in the American South.
Era (London) October 29, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) July 1, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) December 24, 1848: 11:3.
Era (London) April 30, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) March 11, 1849: 1:1.
Era (London) September 29, 1850: 11:3.
Era (London) August 17, 1851: 5:1.
Era (London) November 18, 1849: 10:3.
Info in Record: A piece – taken from “Sir. J. Alexander’s ‘Acadie’” – about “tricks played upon negroes” in New Brunswick.
Era (London) June 1, 1845: 4:2.
Era (London) April 18, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) September 14, 1851: 1:4.
Era (London) February 1, 1846: 5:3.
Era (London) March 15, 1846: 4:2.
Era (London) November 7, 1847: 12:1.
Era (London) September 14, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) March 19, 1848: 8:2.
Era (London) December 21, 1851: 1:2.
Era (London) April 23, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) March 5, 1843: 4:2.
Era (London) August 3, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) July 9, 1848: 15:1.
Info in Record: “Our Carpet Bag”: Joke about a Jew in context of Shakespeare’s Othello and money.
Era (London) February 21, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) February 2, 1851: 12:2.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Cultural Performance (concert) Troupe Name: “Welsh Choral Society” Performers Listed: “Mr. E. W. Thomas was the director”; “the place of a band was supplied by Mr. W. H. Rogers” Days & Times: “on Wednesday” Venue Name: “the Mechanics’ Institute” (Liverpool) Program Info: “Judas Maccabeus” Other: audience description/review weather
Era (London) October 7, 1849: 1:1.
Document Note: Repeated (in this paper), with slight variations, on October 14, 1849 (1:1).
Era (London) November 9, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) April 25, 1852: 11:2.
Era (London) April 20, 1851: 15: 2.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Variety Days & Times: “Easter” Venue Name: “Princess’s” Other Acts on Bill: “Bourcicault’s Love in a Maze” Program Info: “The Alhambra; or, The Three Moorish Princesses” Other: other (playwright – “ ‘A New Grand Spectacular Extravaganza’ by Albert Smith”)
Era (London) December 30, 1849: 10:1.
Era (London) May 25, 1851: 1: 3.
Era (London) July 25, 1847: 11:1.
Era (London) December 20, 1846: 8:2.
Document Note: reprinted (in this paper) on December 27, 1846 (p8)
Era (London) April 16, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) June 3, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) August 13, 1848: 1:1.
Era (London) June 15, 1851: 14:2-3.
Info in Record: Article detailing the trial of “An African, whose name […] appeared to be Ruyder.” This man, who had been arrested for drunkenness and assault, worked as part of Gordon Cumming’s African exhibition, explaining the various objects in the collection to visitors. Author provides a racist and exoticized description of the prisoner, as well as some indication of his working conditions, See attached document scan for further particulars.
Era (London) October 1, 1848: 1: 3.
Era (London) August 12, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) January 17, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) March 10, 1844: 6:1.
Era (London) September 19, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) May 31, 1846: 14:3.
Era (London) December 30, 1849: 10:3.
Info in Record: Item in the “Events in Review” section which notes that “Hill, the Yankee delineator, died at Saratoga Springs from cholera” on September 30.
Era (London) February 8, 1846: 6:3.
Era (London) May 23, 1847: 10:3.
Era (London) September 14, 1851: 11.
Era (London) June 8, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) July 2, 1848: 1:3.
Era (London) February 16, 1845: 6:2.