Assertion: minstrel show | /r/CapableOf | become popular
Facets:
value: during 1840s
type: TEMPORAL
value: during the late 1830s
type: TEMPORAL
value: hugely
type: DEGREE
value: really
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: But minstrel shows really became popular when abolitionists started using them as documentary evidence to show northern audiences how lousy life really was on the ole plantation.
text: When minstrel shows became popular during the late 1830s and 1840s, they featured white men who wore black makeup, exclusively.
text: Minstrel shows became hugely popular in the 1840s exposing white audiences in the North with their first exposure to any depiction of black life.