(MUSIC MINSTRELSY) RICE THOMAS DARTMOUTH Tremont Theatre M

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(MUSIC--MINSTRELSY.) RICE, THOMAS DARTMOUTH. Tremont Theatre. Mr. Finn's Benefit . . . Mr. T. Rice as Jim Crow. Long theatre broadside, 15 x 6-1/4 inches, top and bottom edges slightly uneven; paper evenly toned. Boston, 1833

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a very early program with thomas rice performing his signature song and dance. Thomas Dartmouth Rice (1808 -1860) was an American song and dance performer and playwright who used African-American dialect and mannerisms to develop what would became an entire genre of minstrel style. Virtually all explanations of how Rice came to develop the character of "Jim "Crow" are apocryphal, but the most popular and accepted story goes that Rice met an old black itinerant performer who had a crippled leg and slightly bent shoulder. As a result he had a peculiar dance which Rice copied that involved a little "jump" at the end of each verse. Thus "Jump Jim Crow."