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A Black Actor on the Eighteenth Century Boston Stage?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Clifford Ashby
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University

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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1987

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Notes

1 Wansey, Henry, F.A.S., , The Journal of an Excursion to the United States of North America, in the Summer of 1794 (Salisbury: Printed and Sold by Easton, J., 1796), pp. 4243Google Scholar. A modern edition is now available: Henry Wansey and His American Journal, 1794, ed. Jeremy, David John (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1970)Google Scholar.

2 George Colman the Younger, Inkle and Yarico (London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787)Google Scholar.

3 Neuter, , review of Inkle and Yarico, American Apollo, 10 & 17 April, 1794Google Scholar.

4 Quoted in Reardon, William, “Banned in Boston: A Study of Theatrical Censorship in Boston from 1630 to 1950” (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1952), p. 20Google Scholar.

5 Alden, John, “A Season in Federal Street: J.B. Williamson and the Boston Theatre,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 65 (1955), 3235Google Scholar.

6 Personal letter, 11 January 1972.