Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850

by Jenna M. Gibbs

Book Overview

How popular theater, including blackface characters, reflected and influenced attitudes toward race, the slave trade, and ideas of liberty in early America.

Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421413388
• ISBN13: 9781421413389
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"