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44 relations: B'hoy and g'hal, Baltimore, Barnum's American Museum, Blackface, Boston, Bowery Theatre, Charles W. Taylor, Chatham Theatre, Christy's Minstrels, Dion Boucicault, Edwin S. Porter, Extra (acting), Feminism, George Aiken (playwright), George C. Howard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hutchinson Family Singers, J. C. Furnas, Jim Crow laws, John C. Calhoun, John Townsend Trowbridge, Melodrama, Minstrel show, Musical theatre, My Old Kentucky Home, Old Folks at Home, P. T. Barnum, Play (theatre), Puritans, Racism, Siegmund Lubin, Silent film, Slavery, Spirit of the Times, Stephen Foster, Stereotype, The New York Times, The Octoroon, Thomas D. Rice, Troy, New York, Uncle Tom, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vaudeville, Yankee.
B'hoy and g'hal
B'hoy and g'hal (meant to evoke an Irish pronunciation of boy and gal, respectively) were the prevailing slang words used to describe the young men and women of the rough-and-tumble working class culture of Lower Manhattan in the late 1840s and into the period of the American Civil War.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
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Barnum's American Museum
Barnum's American Museum was located at the corner of Broadway and Ann Street in New York City, United States, from 1841 to 1865.
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Blackface
Blackface was and is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Bowery Theatre
The Bowery Theatre was a playhouse on the Bowery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
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Charles W. Taylor
Charles Western Taylor (- April 11, 1874), often billed as C. W. Taylor, was a well-known actor and dramatist in the United States in the mid-19th century.
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Chatham Theatre
The Chatham Theatre or Chatham Street Theatre was a playhouse on the southeast side of Chatham Street (now Park Row) in New York City.
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Christy's Minstrels
Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer, in 1843, in Buffalo, New York.
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Dion Boucicault
Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December 1820 (or 1822) – 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault (Dee-on Boo-se-koh), was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.
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Edwin S. Porter
Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company.
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Extra (acting)
A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera or ballet production, who appears in a nonspeaking or nonsinging (silent) capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street scene).
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Feminism
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.
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George Aiken (playwright)
George L. Aiken (December 19, 1830April 27, 1876) was a nineteenth-century American playwright and actor who is best known for writing the most popular of the numerous stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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George C. Howard
George C. Howard (1818–1887) was a Nova Scotian-born American actor and showman who is credited with staging the first theatrical production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author.
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Hutchinson Family Singers
The Hutchinson Family Singers were an American family singing group who became the most popular American entertainers of the 1840s.
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J. C. Furnas
Joseph Chamberlain Furnas (1906–2001) was an American freelance writer.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832.
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John Townsend Trowbridge
John Townsend Trowbridge (September 18, 1827 – February 12, 1916) was an American author.
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Melodrama
A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.
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Minstrel show
The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century.
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Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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My Old Kentucky Home
"My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" is an anti-slavery ballad originally written by Stephen Foster, (probably) composed in 1852.
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Old Folks at Home
"Old Folks at Home" (also known as "Swanee River", "Swanee Ribber", or "Suwannee River") is a minstrel song written by Stephen Foster in 1851.
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P. T. Barnum
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, politician and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017).
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Play (theatre)
A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.
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Puritans
The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.
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Racism
Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.
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Siegmund Lubin
Siegmund Lubin (born Zygmunt Lubszyński, April 20, 1851 – September 11, 1923) was a German-American motion picture pioneer who founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (1902–1917) of Philadelphia.
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Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).
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Slavery
Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.
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Spirit of the Times
The Spirit of the Times: A Chronicle of the Turf, Agriculture, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage was an American weekly newspaper published in New York City.
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Stephen Foster
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music.
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Stereotype
In social psychology, a stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Octoroon
The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City.
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Thomas D. Rice
Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860), known professionally as Daddy Rice, was an American performer and playwright who performed blackface and used African-American vernacular speech, song, and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time.
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Troy, New York
Troy is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Rensselaer County.
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Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.
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Yankee
The term "Yankee" and its contracted form "Yank" have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States; its various senses depend on the context.
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