Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy

Robert Nowatzki

Louisiana State University Press, 2010

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In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitionism in their depictions of African Americans.

ISBN-13
9780807136409
ISBN-10
0807136409
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Year
2010
Publication date
2010-06-01
Pages
232
Dimensions
231x149x25
Weight
476