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This work examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) as a lens through which to see the multi-ethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy.

Blackface entertainers --- Minstrel shows --- Minstrel music --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- American minstrelsy --- Blackface minstrelsy --- Ethiopian operas (Minstrel music) --- Ethiopian songs (Minstrel music) --- Minstrel songs --- Minstrelsy, American --- Minstrelsy, Blackface --- Operas, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Songs, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Popular music --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Mount, William Sidney, --- Blackface --- Racism against Black people --- Anti-Black racism --- Antiblack racism --- Racism against Blacks --- Black people --- Impersonation --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows --- Minstrelsy --- American minstrel music --- Minstrel show songs --- Blackface. --- Racism against Black people.