Assertion: banjo | /r/CapableOf | climb onto the minstrel stage
Facets:
value: in 1839
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The banjo climbed onto the minstrel stage in 1839, when a white Virginia musician named Joel Walker Sweeney played his banjo in blackface at the Old Italian Opera House in New York City, providing musical interludes between the plate spinners, opera singers, and magicians.