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Author Jones, Douglas A

Title The captive stage : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North / Douglas A. Jones, Jr
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 218 pages)
Series Theater: theory/text/performance
Theater--theory/text/performance.
Contents Introduction: the "common sense" of slavery in the free Antebellum North -- Setting the stage of black freedom: parades and "presence" in the New Nation -- Black politics but not black people: early minstrelsy, "white slavery", and the wedge of "blackness" -- Washington and the slave: black deformations, proslavery domesticity, and re-staging the birth of the nation -- The theatocracy of antebellum social reform: "monkeyism" and the mode of romantic racialism -- Melodrama and the performance of slave testimony; or, William Wells Brown's Inability to Escape -- Epilogue: no exit, but a new stage
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-206) and index
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Subject African Americans in the performing arts -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
Race discrimination -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
White people -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
Blackface entertainers -- Northeastern States -- History -- 29th century
Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
DRAMA -- American.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Race relations
African Americans in the performing arts
Blackface entertainers
Race discrimination
Racism in popular culture
Slavery
White people
SUBJECT Northeastern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Northeastern States
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020749687
ISBN 9780472120437
0472120433
9781322069197
1322069190