Blacking up: the minstrel show in nineteenth century America

The emergence of a common man's culture

The evolution of the minstrel show

Images of negroes in antebellum minstrelsy

Minstrels fight the civil war

The grand transformation: minstrelsy after the civil war

Social commentary in late nineteenth-century white minstrelsy

Black men take the stage

Puttin' on the mask: the content of black minstrelsy

Chronological list of black minstrel troupes, 1885-1890.