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Monarchs of Minstrelsy, from “Daddy”

by Edw. Le Roy Rice

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  1. 1Dedication — The Author’s Foreword
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Sketch of the Author, With Personal Recollections
  4. 4The First Black-Face Performer
  5. 5Some Early Black-Face Performers
  6. 6“Daddy” Rice
  7. 7The First Minstrel Performance
  8. 8Billy Whitlock
  9. 9Dick Pelham (Richard Ward Pell)
  10. 10Dan. Emmett (Daniel Decatur Emmett)
  11. 11Frank Brower
  12. 12The Buckley Serenaders
  13. 13Christy’s Minstrels
  14. 14Joe Sweeney (Joel Walker Sweeney)
  15. 15The Morris Brothers
  16. 16Geo. Thatcher
  17. 17Original Big Four — Lester-Allen-Smith-Waldron
  18. 18McINTYRE and Heath
  19. 19The Frohmans in Minstrelsy
  20. 20LEW Dockstader (Geo. Alfred Clapp)
  21. 21The Origin of “Dixie”
  22. 22Neil. O’Brien
  23. 23Francis Wilson as a Minstrel Magnate
  24. 24Act I
  25. 25Act III

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