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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 23, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) June 13, 1852: 1:2.
Era (London) May 25, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) May 3, 1846: 3:4.
Info in Record: A racist joke: “An aboriginal American was asked if he had known the Bishop of Quebec? ‘Yes, yes.’ ‘And how did you like him?’ ‘Oh, vastly!’ ‘But how did you happen to know him?’ ‘Happen to know him! Why, I ate a piece of him!’”
Era (London) March 9, 1851: 10:4.
Era (London) April 28, 1850: 12:2.
Era (London) March 29, 1846: 5:4.
Era (London) September 2, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) March 31, 1844: 4:1.
Era (London) April 6, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) July 7, 1844: 5:3.
Era (London) May 30, 1847: 11:1.
Era (London) August 22, 1847: 11:2.
Era (London) April 7, 1844: 4:2.
Era (London) October 6, 1850: 11:3.
Era (London September 3, 1848: 11:2.
Era (London) June 22, 1851: 1:3.
Era (London) April 13, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) April 14, 1844: 7:4.
div class="noteheading">Info in Record: News article about Cuba: “WEST INDIES… . A conspiracy has been discovered in the Island of Cuba, which was organised by the negroes, with the object of massacring the white population, and of burning their possessions”
Era (London) July 22, 1849: 11:1.
Era (London) May 14, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) April 8, 1849: 12:1.
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) April 2, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) November 25, 1849: 12:2.
Era (London) April 25, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) August 31, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) November 16, 1845: 5:4.
Era (London) February 23, 1851: 13:4.
Info in Record: Other: other (Anecdote about a beggar decapitated by a Douree’s sword – “The very principle upon which gentlemen in England shoot their old pet-dogs and horses, and some tribes of Indians eat their grey-headed fathers and mothers.”)
Era (London) April 9, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) November 12, 1848: 12:2.
Era (London) July 16, 1848: 12:4.
Era (London) January 14, 1849: 3:3.
Era (London) January 12, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) September 24, 1848: 10:4.
Info in Record: A ‘joke’ about a “Negro funeral”
Era (London) October 8, 1843: 8:2.
Info in Record: Piece describing a deception perpetrated by a dark-skinned man (“in complexion almost a nigger”). This individual, referred to by the author as “the Dark Impostor”, falsely claimed to be the illegitimate son of Lord George Gordon.
Era (London) March 7, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) August 6, 1848: 11:3.
Era (London) February 9, 1851: 11: 2-3.
Era (London) April 19, 1846: 7:4.
Info in Record: News item on racist response to Indian corn in Ireland.
Era (London) February 9, 1845: 4:1.
Era (London) October 21, 1849: 11:2.
Era (London) November 23, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) May 25, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) June 18, 1843: 4:2.
Era (London) December 10, 1848: 11:2.
Era (London) August 3, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) February 2, 1851: 7:1.
Info in Record: Other: other (Article entitled “Another of the Beauties of American Slavery” about a Rev. J. McBride of North Carolina who was indicted for giving a young girl a copy of the Ten Commandments. )
Era (London) September 2, 1849: 12:2.
Era (London) October 12, 1851: 12:1.
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) January 25, 1846: 4:4.
Era (London) May 9, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) June 2, 1850: 1: 2.
Era (London) August 22, 1847: 11:2.
Era (London) September 29, 1850: 11:3.
Era (London) March 28, 1852: 12: 1.
Era (London) July 6, 1851: 15:1.
Era (London) November 3, 1850: 12:1.
Era (London) July 22, 1849: 11:2.
Era (London) February 9, 1851: 12: 1.
Era (London) May 7, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) April 15, 1849: 13:3.
Era (London) November 8, 1848: 11:2.
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) March 19, 1848: 8:2.
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) 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) February 6, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) December 5, 1847: 12:1.
Era (London) October 21, 1849: 11:2.
Era (London) November 30, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) June 1, 1851: 11:1.
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 (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) November 5, 1848: 11: 4.
Era (London) June 6, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) June 2, 1850: 10: 4.
Era (London) March 2, 1851: 11: 2.
Era (London) April 14, 1844: 4:2.
Era (London) September 3, 1848: 11:2.