Title: The creolization of American culture
Description: Examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy.
Subjects: Minstrel music, History and criticism, Minstrel shows, Blackface entertainers, History, Music, history and criticism, 19th century, Mount, william sydney, 1807-1868, Entertainers, united states