An edition of The captive stage
(2014)
The captive stage
performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North
by Douglas A. Jones
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African Americans in the performing arts, History, Northeastern states, Race relations, Race discrimination, Whites, Blackface entertainers, Racism in popular culture, Slavery, African americans in the performing arts, Northeastern states, politics and government, Whites, history, Entertainers, united states, Slavery, united states, history, African americans in the performing arts--history, African americans in the performing arts--northeastern states--history--19th century, Race discrimination--history, Race discrimination--northeastern states--history--19th century, Whites--history, Whites--northeastern states--history--19th century, Blackface entertainers--history, Blackface entertainers--northeastern states--history--29th century, Racism in popular culture--history, Racism in popular culture--united states--history--19th century, Slavery--history, Slavery--united states--history--19th century, Northeastern states--race relations--history, Northeastern states--race relations--history--19th century, Race relations--history, Pn2270.a35 j55 2014, 812/.3093552Places
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The captive stage: performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North
2014, University of Michigan Press
in English
0472072269 9780472072262
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-206) and index.
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