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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) November 2, 1845: 6:1.
Era (London) December 10, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) January 7, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) December 21, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) January 12, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) October 26, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) March 19, 1848: 8:2.
Era (London) January 19, 1851: 7:1.
Info in Record: Piece in the “Our Carpet Bag” section, which contains the following: “There is a plantation for sale in Louisiana the advertisement stating it to be just below the Devil’s Elbow”.
Era (London) June 8, 1845: 3:1.
Info in Record: poem in which “Robert Rose, the Bard of Color” depicts “the phases of the Fancy Ball as they presented themselves to the ‘Man of Color.’”
Era (London) March 21, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) June 18, 1848: 13:1.
Era (London) February 9, 1851: 5:4.
Era (London) July 1, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) October 7, 1849: 12:2.
Era (London) November 16, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) November 23, 1845: 6:4.
Info in Record: Biographical article on the life of the African Roscius)
Era (London) October 13, 1844: 6:1.
Era (London) May 23, 1852: 11:2.
Era (London) April 27, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) January 22, 1843: 6:3.
Era (London) May 18, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) July 11, 1847: 11:3.
Era (London) June 25, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) November 5, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) December 7, 1851: 11:1.
Era (London) August 26, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) January 24, 1847: 8:3.
Document Note: Repeated, with slight variations, (in this paper) on January 31 and February 7 (both 8:3).
Era (London) March 17, 1844: 12:4.
div class="noteheading">Info in Record: Description of American Indians in a sporting event: “SPORTING IN AMERICA. He was a tall, well-shaped fellow, with that wild light peculiar to the Indians of the mountains in his eye,…”
Era (London) April 6, 1851: 1:2.
Era (London) May 30, 1847: 8:3.
Info in Record: Ad for an “American Drawing Room” at the Garrick’s Head, London. Promises “fair attendants – not ‘Buffalo Gals,’ but young ladies – attentive, polite and noiseless.”
Era (London) September 12, 1847: 11:2.
Era (London) July 20, 1851: 13:1.
Era (London) April 5, 1846: 6:3.
Era (London) July 15, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) December 31, 1848: 11:3.
Era (London) August 25, 1850: 12:2.
Era (London) March 25, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) May 21, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) August 4, 1844: 3:1.
Info in Record: News article about Natives plundering and burning two sea vessels and massacring the crews
Era (London) November 9, 1845: 6:3.
Era (London) April 14, 1844: 4:2.
Era (London) August 24, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) November 25, 1849: 1:1.
Document Note: Repeated (in this paper), with slight variations, on December 2, 1849 (1:1).
Era (London) April 25, 1847: 8:2.
Info in Record: Advertisement by “Mr. John Lee, Dramatic Agent”, which claims that all bookings for the Female American Serenaders must be made through him.
Era (London) August 27, 1848: 11:3.
Era (London) September 7, 1851: 1:4.
Era (London) January 12, 1851: 1:1.
Era (London) October 31, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) November 26, 1848: 12:4.
Era (London) January 7, 1849: 1:3.
Document Note: Repeated (in this paper), with slight variations, on January 14 (1:3), 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18, 25 (all 1:2), March 11, 18 (both 1:3), 25 (1:4) and April 1 (1:2).
Era (London) September 8, 1844 : 4:1.
Era (London) November 2, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) March 12, 1843: 5:4.
Era (London) August 10, 1851: 1:4.
Era (London) July 4, 1852: 11:4.
Era (London) March 21, 1847: 8:3.
Era (London) April 15, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) December 12, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) October 14, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) November 16, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) May 30, 1852: 1:2.
Era (London) April 27, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) August 2, 1846: 8:1.
Era (London) June 15, 1851: 1:3.
Era (London) July 25, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) October 25, 1846: 10:3.
Era (London) August 26, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) January 24, 1847: 10:2.
Era (London) January 5, 1851: 1:1.
Era (London) January 25, 1846: 4:4.
Era (London) May 30, 1847: 8:3.
Era (London) June 2, 1850: 1: 2.
Era (London) September 5, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) September 27, 1846: 10:4.
Era (London) June 15, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) July 22, 1849: 1:1.
Document Note: Repeated (in this paper), with slight variations, on July 29, August 5, 12, 26, and September 2 (all 1:1), and on August 12 (11:1).
Era (London) December 10, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) March 25, 1849: 11:3.
Era (London) November 8, 1848: 11:2.
Era (London) August 25, 1844: 4:1.
Era (London) November 25, 1849: 11:2.
Era (London) April 27, 1845: 4:1.
Era (London) April 25, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) May 18, 1851: 8:1.
Info in Record: Ad for music folio “England’s Welcome to All Nations in Davidson’s ‘Musical Treasury’” includes “ ‘The Song of the Shirt; or, the Lay of the Emigrant Sempstress,’ as Arranged and Sung nightly by Mr. Henry Russell, in his entertainment on Emigration.”
Era (London) August 11, 1844: 8:2.
Info in Record: Article about an insurrection in a Dominican state. Mentions that “… nine blacks had been shot, and that upwards of one hundred were in prison waiting their trial”.
Era (London) October 31, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) November 12, 1848: 12:2.
Era (London) January 7, 1849: 8:2.
Info in Record: Response to a reader question, which indicates that ‘Othello’ was produced at Covent Garden in 1826-7, with Edmund Kean in the title role.
Era (London) January 12, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) June 14, 1846: 14:2.
Document Note: reprinted (in this paper) on June 21 and 28, 1846 (both p16), with dates changed accordingly
Era (London) June 14, 1846: 14:1.
Era (London) March 16, 1851: 1:2.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Variety Performers: “Messrs. Penniket, Edmonds, and Yankee Palmer” Days & Times: “Chair taken at haf-past Eight o’clock.” Venue Name: “RHODES’S CELEBRATED “COAL HOLE” TAVERN, STRAND (Opposite Exeter Hall) Program Info: “A great variety of glees, madrigals, ballads, &c.,”; “The Comic Songs of Messrs. Penniket, Edmonds, and Yankee Palmer” Info About Other Categories: Other Venue Info (food served, prices)
Era (London) March 21, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) August 6, 1848: 11:3.
Era (London) December 12, 1847: 12:2.
Era (London) May 13, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) October 14, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) November 23, 1851: 1:2.
Era (London) November 8, 1848: 11:1.
Era (London) June 6, 1852: 1:2.