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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) May 9, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) August 24, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) October 3, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) April 23, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) January 28, 1849: 12:3.
Era (London) October 22, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) October 19, 1851: 15: 4.
Era (London) April 16, 1843: 4:1.
Era (London) August 10, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) February 18, 1844 : 6:1.
Era (London) April 4, 1847: 11:3.
Era (London) August 3, 1851: 11:4 .
Era (London) February 15, 1846: 4:1.
Era (London) October 12, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) February 16, 1851: 5:4.
Era (London) August 11, 1844: 5:3-4.
Era (London) December 7, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) December 7, 1845: 6:1.
Era (London) March 31, 1850: 12: 4.
Era (London) May 11, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) March 9, 1851: 11: 2.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Dramatic Performers Listed: “The company at present consists of Misses C. Wynne, E. Webster, J. Power, F. Green, S. Richardson, Mrs. Swift, and Mrs. Bell; Messrs. Walter Grisdale, Burchell, Rorke, Norman, Jones, Brown, Thomson, Gordon, Mungall, and Bradford.” Days & Times: “Tuesday” Venue Name: “Newcastle-Upon-Tyne – Theatre Royal” Other Acts on Bill: “Belphegor” Program Info: “Merchant of Venice” Other: audience Info About Other Categories: Other Venue Info (lessee – “Mr. E. D. Davis”)
Era (London) March 1, 1846: 6:3.
Era (London) February 7, 1847: 8:3.
Era (London) April 23, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) November 9, 1851: 1: 2.
Era (London) September 16, 1849: 8:1.
Era (London) September 22, 1850: 1:1.
Era (London) October 19, 1851: 12:2.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Variety Performers Listed: “Mr. Baker, the Red Man of Agar” Days & Times: “during the week” Venue Name: “Adelphi Concert Hall” Sheffield Other Acts on Bill: “Deulin’s performing dogs and monkeys” Other: description/review reception
Era (London) January 11, 1852: 7:1.
Info in Record: A news item about a “desperate and fatal fight with the negroes at Lagos by the Niger ship’s company, in which affair Messrs. Dyer and Hall, mates of the Niger will killed, and nine men were also killed and wounded.” See attached document image for further details.
Era (London) June 30, 1850: 11:2.
Era (London) December 14, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) February 20, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) June 27, 1847: 8:3.
Era (London) March 2, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) June 29, 1851: 7:2.
Era (London) July 29, 1849: 11:3.
Era (London) October 6, 1850: 11:4.
Era (London) April 21, 1844: 3:2.
Era (London) May 7, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) September 17, 1843: 3:2.
Info in Record: News item about “an insurrection amongst the negroes” in St. Domingo, West Indies.
Era (London) December 9, 1849: 12:3.
Era (London) February 20, 1848: 12:2.
Era (London) May 9, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) August 24, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) February 23, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) January 28, 1849: 12:4.
Era (London) October 22, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) March 31, 1850: 12: 4.
Era (London) April 16, 1843: 4:1.
Info in Record: "United States". Short news report on the revolution in Hayti, where 14,000 men march on Port-au-Prince against 4000 government troops.
Era (London) June 18, 1848: 13:1.
Era (London) December 2, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) November 4, 1849: 6:2.
Info in Record: A piece about a “negro” who preferred to protect his hat (rather than his head) from rain, because the hat is his own, while his “head belong to massa”.
Era (London) January 9, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) February 11, 1844: 3:2.
Era (London) August 20, 1848: 12:1.
Info in Record: Performance Type Indicated: Vocal Entertainment Troupe Name: “Henry Russell,” “the Serenaders” Days and Times: “shortly” Other Acts on Bill: Messrs. Graham and Charles, and the Lockwood Family
Era (London) April 11, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) June 9, 1844: 7:4.
Info in Record: Info About Other Categories: Article detailing the Kordofanian Code of Honour (an African duel): “— When a gentlemen of that nation considers himself aggrieved, he sends the offender a formal challenge, which, it is presumed, is always accepted. The duel takes place on some open plain, and all the friends of the combatants assemble as spectators”.
Era (London) October 5, 1851: 7:4.
Info in Record: Racist Joke entitled “Sambo” in the “Our Carpet Bag” section. Reads as follows: “Sambo, where did the Mexicans suffer the most? – ‘Why, in de feet’ (defeat)”.
Era (London) November 14, 1847: 12;2.
Era (London) October 18, 1846: 10:1.
Era (London) April 7, 1850: 12: 3.
Era (London) August 3, 1851: 1:3.
Era (London) November 19, 1843: 6:2.
Era (London) March 22, 1846: 6:1.
Era (London) February 7, 1847: 10:3.
Era (London) September 16, 1849: 11:3.
Era (London) January 18, 1852: 11:4.
Era (London) May 26, 1844: 4:3.
Era (London) April 13, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) June 27, 1847: 8:3.
Era (London) August 8, 1847: 7:1.
Era (London) December 10, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) December 1, 1844 : 3:3.
Info in Record: A derogatory and racist song entitled “THE YANKEE BOATSWAIN’S SONG. TO THE AMERICAN SLAVE NAVY.” Selection of lyrics: “Heave away, my tight niggers, my jolly brisk blacks,— Ain’t there tar in your very complexion?—”…
Era (London) August 18, 1844: 4:1.
Era (London) June 22, 1851: 9:4.
Era (London) August 5, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) January 25, 1846: 6:2.
Era (London) August 4, 1850: 11: 2.
Era (London) May 14, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) March 30, 1851: 11: 2.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Dramatic Days & Times: “since the opening” Venue Name: “Spalding” Other Acts on Bill: “Alice Gray, and Hamlet” Program Info: “The Jewess” Other: audience Info About Other Categories: Other Venue Info (atmosphere; proprietor – “Mr. J. Douglass”)
Era (London) December 9, 1849: 12:3.
Era (London) May 9, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) April 19, 1846: 6:2.
Document Note: reprinted (in this paper) on April 26, 1846 (p6)
Era (London) January 12, 1851: 10:4.
Info in Record: Description of old “King’s Theatre” that originally stood on present site in Drury Lane; excerpt from the Gentleman’s Magazine.
Era (London) May 25, 1851: 15:4.
Era (London) October 3, 1847: 12:1.
Era (London) December 28, 1845: 6:1.
Era (London) November 19, 1848: 12:2.
Era (London) May 28, 1848: 10:4.
Info in Record: Description of, and poem about, the ritual of human sacrifice in Africa.
Era (London) February 4, 1849: 1:3.
Era (London) March 16, 1851: 11: 4.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Variety Performers Listed: “Mr. Clarance”; “Mr. Gilbeigh” Days & Times: “this week” Venue Name: “Norwich – Theatre Royal” Other Acts on Bill: “Agnes Primrose” Program Info: “the burlesque of Aladdin” Other: audience description/review Info About Other Categories: Other Individual Info – Mr. Clarance as Aladdin (review) Other Individual Info – Mr. Gilbeigh as Abenazar (review) Other Venue Info (lessee – Mr. J. Clarance)
Era (London) October 22, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) November 15, 1846: 11:2.
Era (London) September 13, 1846: 10:2.
Era (London) April 5, 1846: 6:3.
Era (London) October 22, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) January 5, 1845: 4:1.
Info in Record: Editorial about the attempted annexation of Texas by the US. Objects to the US annexing Texas as ‘the Slave Trade would be encouraged there to an unlimited extent, and the dollar loving souls of the Americans would gloat alike in profits of land and human blood.”
Era (London) April 14, 1850: 12:3.
Era (London) November 25, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) August 17, 1851: 1:1.