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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) February 23, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) May 28, 1848: 12:3.
Era (London) January 14, 1849: 12:2.
Era (London) October 1, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) April 28, 1850: 12:2.
Era (London) March 19, 1843: 7:4.
Info in Record: " African Notes for General Circulation (From the New York Spirit of the Times), full lyrics for a song for Charles Dickens "FROM DE DRIBER OF STAGE NO. 1", Tune - Dennis Belgrudery "
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) August 20, 1848: 11:3.
Era (London) April 4, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) May 4, 1851: 1:1.
Era (London) February 9, 1851: 12: 1.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Dramatic Days & Times: “since our last” Venue Name: “Theatre Royal” (Sunderland) Program Info: “The Merchant of Venice” Info About Other Categories: Other Venue Info (manager – Mr. S. Roxby)
Era (London) March 2, 1846: 3:4.
Info in Record: Article about the death of a 6 month old Ioway Indian child while touring with the Ioway Indians. The group originally consisted of 14, but after leaving Edinburgh lost the child. A group of ladies (friends of Mr. Catlin’s) assisted the family in arranging a funeral. The Ioway Indians wanted the child buried in Newcastle, “in which place they had been treated with great kindness by some members of the Society of Friends”.
Era (London) October 21, 1849: 11:1.
Era (London) August 23, 1846: 10:1.
Era (London) April 19, 1846: 6:2.
Era (London) March 28, 1852: 12: 1.
Era (London) July 27, 1851: 12:4.
Era (London) March 9, 1851: 11:1.
Era (London) December 17, 1848: 10:4.
Era (London) January 31, 1847: 10:4.
Era (London) September 9, 1849: 5:2.
Era (London) January 12, 1851: 1:3.
Era (London) October 25, 1846: 10:4.
Era (London) April 6, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) June 6, 1847: 11:3.
Era (London) March 2, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) June 22, 1851: 11:2-3.
Era (London) November 1, 1846: 10:2.
Era (London) July 29, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) May 13, 1849: 1:1.
Era (London) March 30, 1851: 11: 1.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Dramatic Days & Times: “on Wednesday evening” Venue Name: “Darlaston” Other Acts on Bill: “Did you ever send your Wife to Birmingham” Program Info: “Merchant of Venice” Other: audience benefit Info About Other Categories: Other Venue Info (manageress – “Mrs. Latimer” – for her benefit)
Era (London) September 7, 1851: 6:4.
Era (London) December 2, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) April 19, 1846: 7:4.
Info in Record: News item on racist response to Indian corn in Ireland.
Era (London) May 2, 1847: 8:3.
Era (London) August 31, 1851: 5:4.
Info in Record: An article which notes that Sambo Sutton had been libelously accused of highway robbery in another publication. The author suggests that Young Sambo, not Sutton, is the individual “implicated in the affair”.
Era (London) October 10, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) November 26, 1848: 12:4.
Era (London) January 5, 1851: 10:4.
Info in Record: mention of “Domingo da Salva, and Jose da Costa, negro sailors, executed at Brest, for murder of the captain of the brig Adele, during the shipwreck of that vessel on the coast of Africa.”
Era (London) January 21, 1849: 10:4.
Era (London) January 12, 1851: 11:1.
Era (London) October 8, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) March 26, 1843: 2:1.
Info in Record: "Coast of Africa Bill": News report on the debate in Parliament over the first reading of this bill, and whether or not there should be an annual budget for the colonies; the bill seems to give government more control over business affairs in its colonies.
Era (London) September 23, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) August 20, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) April 4, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) October 19, 1851: 1:2.
Era (London) April 4, 1847: 8:2.
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) October 19, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) February 9, 1851: 12:4.
Info in Record: Other: other (Excerpt from The Christian Times decrying “The Low Theatres of London”; one theatre’s audience consisted of “a much larger number of young girls and sailors, with a few persons of colour, amounting altogether to about four hundred.”)
Era (London) October 28, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) November 30, 1851: 12:4.
Era (London) January 26, 1851: 1:3.
Era (London) March 4, 1849: 12:3.
Era (London) January 29, 1843: 4:1.
Era (London) May 25, 1851: 1:2.
Era (London) February 13, 1848: 12:4.
Era (London) June 4, 1843: 6:1.
Era (London) December 24, 1848: 1:1.
Document Note: A similar ad (listing the Arabs in Robin Hood) appeared (in this paper on December 31, 1848 (1:2).
Era (London) January 31, 1847: 10:4.
Era (London) January 21, 1844 : 4:2.
Era (London) February 2, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) August 2, 1846: 13:1.
Info in Record: Report on Jim Crow’s health: “the celebrated ‘Jim Crow,’ has been deprived of speech and the use of his limbs by a stroke of paralysis.”
Era (London) October 5, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) December 21, 1851: 9:3.
Info in Record: An article entitled “The President’s Message – Reviewed”, which makes mention of “Fugitive Slave Law” in the U.S.
Era (London) September 20, 1846: 14:3.
Info in Record: Report of “a man of colour, [Charles Pelli] who obtains a livelihood by singing ‘nigger’ songs in the streets” being charged for drunkenly assaulting a police officer. Transcripts from his arrest read as follows: “Prisoner: It is owing to de Leger, good massa magistrate, dat me get drunk. Magistrate: The Leger? What have you to do with that? Prisoner: Me tell you, massa; two pot boys won 15s, on de Sir Tatton Syke, and dey stood some gin, because ob dere good luck; me took too much, and got berry bad headache now; me sorry for it.” The man was charged five shillings)
Era (London) June 13, 1847: 8:3.
Era (London) March 2, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) November 8, 1848: 11:1.
Era (London) June 29, 1851: 8:2.
Info in Record: Another piece discussing the Kaffir War.
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) July 29, 1849: 4:1.
Era (London) May 7, 1848: 1:4.
Era (London) May 20, 1849: 1:1.
Era (London) March 30, 1851: 11:1.
Era (London) January 26, 1851: 7: 1.
Info in Record: Other: other (Description of African kings: “AFRICAN KINGS, - On the coast of Africa and up the country, we have made treaties over a bottle of rum, with kings whose court boasted for its chief ornament a cocked hat or two and some plush breeches. At an interview in Ashantee, a high native functionary wore an epaulette, and a handsome one too; but where? – over a gold hand bell at the bottom of the spine, “where the tail joins on to the small of the back.” – Fraser’s Mag)
Era (London) January 11, 1846: 6:1.
Era (London) December 2, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) May 2, 1847: 8:3.
Era (London) March 5, 1848: 8:2.
Document Note: article reprinted (in this paper) on March 5 (12:1), March 12 (8:2), March 19 (8:2), March 26 (8:2), April 2 (8:2)
Era (London) May 25, 1851: 10:2.
Era (London) October 10, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) November 12, 1848: 12:2.
Era (London) June 9, 1844: 3:1.
Era (London) June 4, 1848: 12:1.
Era (London) January 21, 1849: 11:3.
Era (London) January 19, 1851: 8:4.
Info in Record: Article on residents of Hobart Town Australia arguing against the admittance of more convicts. Reporter compares their protest (as descendants of convicts themselves) to “a mulatto expressing his disgust at the presence of a ‘nigger’ in a room.”
Era (London) October 8, 1848: 12:2.
Era (London) March 26, 1843: 2:1.
Info in Record: "Slave Trade (Payment of Bounties) Bill": News report on the debate in Parliament over a report on this bill, and the details of how to calculate the bounty per vessel.
Era (London) August 25, 1844: 5:4.
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) 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 28, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) April 4, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) May 4, 1851: 1:3.
Era (London) November 15, 1846: 11:4.
Info in Record: Article exposing “The Wild Man of the Prairies” as a fraud.
Era (London) February 16, 1851: 1:1.
Era (London) June 2, 1844: 2:4.
Info in Record: News article about clashes in Philadelphia between Native American and Irish factions
Era (London) December 21, 1851: 12: 3 .