[Ads-l] Antedating of "Minstrel Show"

[Shapiro, Fred]

minstrel show (OED 1870)

1860 Wood County Reporter (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.) 28 Jan. 2/5 (GenealogyBank)

There had been a negro minstrsl show and a dance during the evening.

Fred Shapiro

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