Gibbs, Jenna M.,  1961- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Theater--History--England--London--18th century.<br/>Theater--History--England--London--19th century.<br/>Theater--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.<br/>Theater--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.<br/>Slave trade in the theater.<br/>Race in the theater.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN2596  / .P474 2014