Performing the temple of liberty : slavery, theater, and popular culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850 /
Gibbs, Jenna M., 1961-
Performing the temple of liberty : slavery, theater, and popular culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850 / Jenna M. Gibbs. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) : illustrations. - Early America: History, Context, Culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Slave-trade abolition: pageantry, parody, and the goddess of liberty (1800s- 1820s) -- Celebrating Columbia, mother of the white republic -- Abolitionist britannia and the blackface supplicant slave -- Spreading liberty to Africa -- Part 2. Introduction: emancipation and political reform: burlesque, picaresque, and the great experiment (1820s-1830s) -- Blackface freedom: life in London, life in Philadelphia -- Transatlantic travelers, slavery, and Charles Mathew's "Black fun" -- Part 3. Introduction: Radical abolitionism, revolt, and revolution: Spartacus and the blackface minstrel (1830s-1850s) -- Spartacus, Jim Crow, and the Black jokes of revolt -- Revolutionary brotherhood: Black Spartacus, Black hercules, and the wage slave -- Conclusion: Uncle Tom, the eighteenth-century revolutionary legacy, and historical memory.
Theater--History--England--London--18th century.
Theater--History--England--London--19th century.
Theater--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Theater--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
Slave trade in the theater.
Race in the theater.
Electronic Books.
PN2596 / .P474 2014
Performing the temple of liberty : slavery, theater, and popular culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850 / Jenna M. Gibbs. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) : illustrations. - Early America: History, Context, Culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Slave-trade abolition: pageantry, parody, and the goddess of liberty (1800s- 1820s) -- Celebrating Columbia, mother of the white republic -- Abolitionist britannia and the blackface supplicant slave -- Spreading liberty to Africa -- Part 2. Introduction: emancipation and political reform: burlesque, picaresque, and the great experiment (1820s-1830s) -- Blackface freedom: life in London, life in Philadelphia -- Transatlantic travelers, slavery, and Charles Mathew's "Black fun" -- Part 3. Introduction: Radical abolitionism, revolt, and revolution: Spartacus and the blackface minstrel (1830s-1850s) -- Spartacus, Jim Crow, and the Black jokes of revolt -- Revolutionary brotherhood: Black Spartacus, Black hercules, and the wage slave -- Conclusion: Uncle Tom, the eighteenth-century revolutionary legacy, and historical memory.
Theater--History--England--London--18th century.
Theater--History--England--London--19th century.
Theater--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Theater--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
Slave trade in the theater.
Race in the theater.
Electronic Books.
PN2596 / .P474 2014