List of blackface minstrel troupes

This is a list of blackface minstrel troupes.

• Adams and Lee[1]
• Backus' Minstrels
• Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels[2]
• Bryant's Minstrels[3]
• Buckley's Serenaders (a.k.a. Buckley's Congo Melodists, Buckley's New Orleans Serenaders, New Orleans Serenaders)[4]
• Callender's Georgia Minstrels[5]
• Campbell's Minstrels[4]
• Christy Minstrels (a.k.a. George Christy Minstrels)[4]
• Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels
• Ethiopian Serenaders (a.k.a. Boston Minstrels, Ethiopian Melodists, Ethiopian Minstrels)[6]
• Gavitt's Original Ethiopian Serenaders[7]
• George Mitchell Minstrels
• Georgia Minstrels, later Haverly's European Minstrels[8]
• Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels[9]
• Honey Boy Hotchkiss Minstrels[10]
• Kunkel's Nightingales[11]
• Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels[12]
• Ole Bull Band of Serenaders[11]
• Ordway's Aeolians[11]
• Sable Brothers and Sisters[13]
• Sable Harmonists[13]
• San Francisco Minstrels[14]
• Sanford's Opera Troupe (a.k.a. Sanford's Minstrels)[15]
• Virginia Minstrels (a.k.a. Virginia Serenaders)[4]
• White's Serenaders (a.k.a. White's Minstrels)[16]
• Wood's Minstrels (a.k.a. Christy and Wood's Minstrels)[17]

See also

• List of entertainers known to have performed in blackface

References

1. October and November 1890, S.S.Stewart's Banjo and Guitar Journal.
2. Toll, Robert C. (1974). Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 199.: an all-black minstrel troupe.
3. Toll, 1974, p. 57.
4. Lott, Eric (1993). Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Oxford University Press. p. 180. ISBN 0-19-509641-X.
5. Toll, 1974, p. 200.
6. Toll, 1974, p. 37-8.
7. Lott, 1993, p. 37: an all-black minstrel troupe.
8. Bernard L. Peterson (1997). The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960: A Comprehensive Guide to Early Black Theatre Organizations, Companies, Theatres, and Performing Groups. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-313-29537-9.
9. Toll, 1974, p. 146.
10. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, 6 May 1920.
11. Mahar 362.
12. Toll, 1974, p. 138: an all-female minstrel troupe.
13. Mahar 363.
14. McCoy, Sharon D. ""The Trouble Begins at Eight": Mark Twain, the San Francisco Minstrels, and the Unsettling Legacy of Blackface Minstrelsy". American Literary Realism. pp. 232–248. doi:10.1353/alr.0.0022. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
15. Mahar 359–60.
16. Mahar 359.
17. Mahar 360.