TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Douglas A.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The captive stage: performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North 
T2  - Theater: theory/text/performance
SN  - 9780472120437
AV  - PN2270.A35 J55 2014
U1  - 812/.3093552 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Racism in popular culture
KW  - Blackface entertainers
KW  - Northeastern states
KW  - 29th century
KW  - Whites
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Race relations
KW  - African Americans in the performing arts
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472120437/
ER  -