Antebellum Period Websites
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A fantastic multi-media archive from the University of Virginia, relating to Uncle Tom's Cabin and its place in American culture across several decades. Includes a wealth of visual and textual primary sources, including African-American and Southern-white responses to the novel.
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A wonderful exploration of P.T. Barnum's "Lost Museum," with primary source documents.
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The Barnum Museum in P.T.'s birthplace, Bridgeport Connecticut.
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PBS's American Experience site on blackface minstrelsy.
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Ethnic Notions (1986) is a fantastic documentary on the Black image in the white mind; it includes depictions of African Americans under slavery and long thereafter, with an extremely valuable analysis of blackface minstrelsy.