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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) March 4, 1849: 11:1-2.
Era (London) March 16, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) August 17, 1851: 5:1.
Era (London) November 8, 1848: 11:2.
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) September 29, 1850: 11:3.
Era (London) April 18, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) September 14, 1851: 1:4.
Era (London) November 7, 1847: 12:1.
Era (London) November 15, 1846: 11:3.
Era (London) November 3, 1850: 12:1.
Era (London) December 21, 1851: 1:2.
Era (London) September 1, 1844 : 5:3-4.
Era (London) March 5, 1843: 4:2.
Era (London) August 3, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) March 19, 1848: 8:2.
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) April 19, 1846: 7:4.
Info in Record: News item on racist response to Indian corn in Ireland.
Era (London) November 9, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) August 6, 1848: 11:3.
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) November 8, 1848: 11:1.
Era (London) July 25, 1847: 11:1.
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) August 12, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) January 17, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) September 19, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) January 25, 1846: 4:4.
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) May 23, 1847: 10:3.
Era (London) June 2, 1850: 1: 2.
Era (London) September 14, 1851: 11.
Era (London) March 28, 1852: 12: 1.
Era (London) June 8, 1851: 11:2.
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) July 19, 1846: 13:2.
Era (London) October 5, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) August 17, 1851: 10:3.
Info in Record: Book review of Captain Milman’s ‘Arthur Conway; or, Scenes in the Tropics’, published posthumously after his death in 1850. Milman’s book is an adventure story set in the ‘West India Islands.’
Era (London) November 18, 1849: 10:3.
Info in Record: A piece – written in minstrel dialect – that purports to repeat a “dandy black” from Boston’s description of a potato.
Era (London) April 14, 1844: 4:2.
Era (London) August 27, 1848: 11:1.
Era (London) April 18, 1847: 11:3.
Era (London) May 18, 1851: 1:1.
Era (London) November 7, 1847: 12:1.
Era (London) November 12, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) November 8, 1848: 11:1.
Era (London) August 6, 1848: 1:4.
Info in Record: ”Our Carpet Bag: “A ‘Black Bull’: Free Blacks in African settlement fined for worshipping "alligators, thunder, or any other reptiles."
Era (London) January 19, 1851: 9:4.
Era (London) April 6, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) August 11, 1844: 6:1.
Era (London) May 7, 1843: 5:4.
Era (London) February 28, 1847: 12:3.
Era (London) January 11, 1846: 6:1.
Era (London) October 7, 1849: 10:3.
Info in Record: A piece in the “Our Carpet Bag” section entitled “Origin of Negroes”. The author claims to describe the beliefs of “The lower order of Brazilians […] as to their original formation”.
Era (London) February 6, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) April 25, 1852: 12:1.
Era (London) April 27, 1851: 12:2.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Exhibition Days & Times: “On Monday” Venue Name: “Egyptian Hall” Other Acts on Bill: “Panorama of the Nile” Program Info: “grand moving diorama of the Holy Land” Other: context description/review reception Info About Other Categories: Other Program Item Info (history) “had been removed from 53 Pall-mall, as the bill of fare for the holiday folks”
Era (London) March 9, 1851: 1: 1.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Dramatic Performers Listed: “Mr. J. William Wallack, Tragedian of America”; “Miss Laura Addison”; “Mr. James Wallack” Days & Times: “On Monday”; “Tuesday”; “Wednesday”; “Thursday”; “Friday”; “Saturday” Venue Name: “Theatre Royal, Haymarket” Other Acts on Bill: “a Shakespearian Tragedy”; “Good for Nothing”; “Wild Oats”; “Black Eyed Susan”; “The Wife”; “Presented at Court”; “other Entertainments”
Era (London) May 3, 1846: 5:4.
Era (London) December 31, 1848: 13:1.
Era (London) July 27, 1851: 12:4.
Era (London) August 19, 1849: 7:4.
Info in Record: Discussion of a piece from ‘The Richmond Republican’, which claims that “at least five blacks die [of cholera] to one white, on account of their having less control of their appetites…”.
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) October 5, 1851: 11.
Era (London) January 17, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) March 31, 1844: 6:3-4.
Era (London) September 19, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) November 5, 1848: 11: 4.
Era (London) December 30, 1849: 10:4.
Era (London) May 23, 1847: 10:3.
Era (London) June 2, 1850: 10: 4.
Era (London) October 19, 1851: 15.
Info in Record: News article detailing the Marriage of “Mr. G.V. Brooke, the eminent tragedian” and “Miss Marianne Woolcott Bray” (performed under the name “Miss Bloomfield”) at “St. Philip’s Church, Birmingham, last Friday morning.” Also notes the couple’s departure for New York, where Brooke is to perform.
Era (London) July 20, 1851: 13:1.
Era (London) July 8, 1849: 1:1.
Document Note: Repeated (in this paper), with slight variations, on July 15, 1849 (1:1).
Era (London) June 4, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) March 11, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) December 24, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) May 21, 1848: 12:2.
Era (London) March 11, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) April 12, 1846: 6:2.
Era (London) March 16, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) January 2, 1848: 12:4.
Era (London) October 19, 1851: 12:4.
Era (London) August 17, 1851: 12:3.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Variety Troupe Name: “Mr. Baker (the Red Man of Agar) and his children” Performers Listed: “Mr. Baker”; “the young Baker, three years and a half old” Venue Name: “Newcastle-On-Tyne – Shades Saloon” Other Acts on Bill: “Mr. Friend, the admired tenor” Program Info: “a new series of tableaux” Info About Other Categories: Other Venue Info (proprietor – R. Whitfield)
Era (London) September 21, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) November 18, 1849: 10:4.
Era (London) August 25, 1844: 4:1.
Era (London) April 18, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) September 7, 1851: 15:2.
Info in Record: Article describing the “Capture and Execution of Fifty-two of the Members of the New Orleans Expedition”. The author notes the “negroes, slaves and free” who were present at the execution.
Era (London) November 7, 1847: 12:1.
Era (London) December 17, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) July 5, 1846: 13:2.
Document Note: reprinted (in this paper) on July 12, 1846 (p13), with dates changed accordingly