Dixie in Difficulties (July 10, 1850)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Nice to have it handy, but it's already referenced in HDAS 1.

  JL

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_JSTOR: Dixie_
(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4631(194901)35:1<60:D>2.0.CO;2-2) ... on the Northern minstrel stage in 1850 in a play titled
United States Mail and Dixie in Difficulties.37 The only character who was a
real stage Negro in ...
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The above essay is well-known to "Dixie" scholars.
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However, check out the "United States Mail, or Dixie in Difficulties" cite
from July 10, 1850 (Portsmouth, NH) in the new "American Broadsides and
Ephemera, Series I. Nice stuff, now available in the New York Public Library. The
NYPL still doesn't get America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922 yet (just
Series I of that).

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