List of blackface minstrel troupes

List of blackface minstrel troupes

This is a list of blackface minstrel troupes.

* Adams and Lee [October and November 1890, "S.S.Stewart's Banjo and Guitar Journal".]
* Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrelscite book| last=Toll| first=Robert C.| year=1974| title=Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-century America| location=New York| publisher=Oxford University Press| pages=199: an all-black minstrel troupe.]
* Bryant's MinstrelsToll, 1974, p. 57.]
* Buckley's Serenaders (a.k.a. Buckley's Congo Melodists, Buckley's New Orleans Serenaders, New Orleans Serenaders)cite book| last=Lott| first=Eric| title=Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=1993| id=ISBN 0-19-509641-X| pages=180]
* Callender's Georgia MinstrelsToll, 1974, p. 200.]
* Campbell's Minstrels
* Christy Minstrels (a.k.a. George Christy Minstrels)
* Ethiopian Serenaders (a.k.a. Boston Minstrels, Ethiopian Melodists, Ethiopian Minstrels)Toll, 1974, p. 37-8.]
* Gavitt's Original Ethiopian SerenadersLott, 1993, p. 37: an all-black minstrel troupe.]
* George Mitchell Minstrels
* Georgia Minstrels, later Haverly's European Minstrels
* Haverly's United Mastodon MinstrelsToll, 1974, p. 146.]
* Kunkel's NightingalesMahar 362.]
* Madame Rentz's Female MinstrelsToll, 1974, p. 138: an all-female minstrel troupe.]
* Ole Bull Band of Serenaders
* Ordway's Aeolians
* Sable Brothers and SistersMahar 363.]
* Sable Harmonists
* Sanford's Opera Troupe (a.k.a. Sanford's Minstrels) [Mahar 359–60.]
* Virginia Minstrels (a.k.a. Virginia Serenaders)
* White's Serenaders (a.k.a. White's Minstrels) [Mahar 359.]
* Wood's Minstrels (a.k.a. Christy and Wood's Minstrels) [Mahar 360.]

ee also

* List of entertainers known to have performed in blackface

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