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The Virginia Minstrels put on a full minstrel show at the New York Bowery Amphitheatre on 6 February 1843. Whitlock was the most famous of the foursome, [5] but soon all four names became well known as they toured New York and Boston. Whitlock's banjo was long-necked and four-stringed, though a fifth was added by 1844.
Lew Dockstader (born George Alfred Clapp; August 7, 1856 – October 26, 1924) was an American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star, best known as a blackface minstrel show performer. Dockstader performed as a solo act and in his own popular minstrel troupe.
He was born in Monroe, Louisiana, to Frank, an old-time Dixieland bandleader, and Marcella. [2] Moreland began acting by the time he was an adolescent; some sources say he ran away to join a minstrel show in 1910, at age eight, [2] but his daughter told Moreland's biographer she doubts this date is correct. [3]
He started performing in blackface in a minstrel show in about 1850, and joined S. S. Sanford's Minstrels in Philadelphia. He toured widely in the U.S. and Canada, with several minstrel shows including Bryant's Minstrels and Campbell's Minstrels. [2] Described as an "Ethiopian Comedian", Unsworth sang Irish songs and played the banjo
Milt G. Barlow (June 29, 1843 – September 27, 1904) was an American blackface comedian and actor popular in minstrel and vaudeville shows over the latter half of the 19th century. Milt G. Barlow Monarchs of Minstrelsy pub. 1911
A promoter saw him performing outside the Globe Theater in Richmond and offered him a job as a "pick" in a local minstrel show. At that time, minstrel shows were staged by white performers in blackface. Pickaninnies were cute black children at the edge of the stage singing, dancing, or telling jokes. [5]: p. 39–40
Minstrel shows mocking African Americans were our country’s original pop culture, Perez writes, and the most popular form of entertainment during the 19th century. This style of open racial ...
Kersands began performing with traveling minstrel troupes in the early 1860s. As black minstrelsy gained popularity, Kersands became its biggest star. In 1879, he earned about $15 a week, but by 1882, he was reportedly earning $80, only slightly less than a featured white minstrel. He was known to have earned $250 a week during European ...