Presentation Year

2019

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Abigail MorenoEnglish Undergraduate Student

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In “The African-American Experience as portrayed by Minstrels” I examine how the African-American experience in Antebellum America was inaccurately portrayed by minstrel-performers; slaves were largely portrayed as happy field workers; lazy and good-for-nothing buffoons. The disparity between the entertainment art form and the reality of the black-slave offers a historical viewpoint of the American people of this era, their white nationalist values, as well as their prejudicial practices.

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