Antebellum Period
Antebellum Period Images
Stage Stars of the Age
Edwin Forrest in the title role of Metamora by John Augustus Stone. Engraving by T. Johnson after a photograph by Mathew Brady, circa 1859
The Birth of a Stereotype
Lithograph advertising "Mr. T. Rice as Jim Crow," circa 1830s.
Blackface Minstrelsy
Detail from sheet music cover of "Sich a Getting Up Stairs," featuring Thomas D. Rice.
Mocking Upward Aspirations
The"Zip Coon" blackface minstrelsy character.
Nightlife in Antebellum New York
A Five Points district oyster cellar, from George Foster's New York by Gas-light (1850).
A Map to the Mind
The cover of the American Phrenological Journal, March 1848.
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