Sheet music cover featuring the Ethiopian Serenaders (here billed as the "Boston Minstrels"), New York, 1843
Background information
Also known as
Dumbolton's Serenaders
Origin
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres
Minstrel show
Years active
c.1840–1860s
Past members
Francis Carr Germon Moody G. Stanwood Anthony Fannen Winnemore E. J. Quinn J. Baker G. Wilson Gilbert Pelham George Alfred Harrington George Warren White William Henry Lane ("Juba") Thomas F. Briggs J. H. Everton James H. Irwin M. C. Ludlow J. W. Valintine Cool White Emmett etc.
The Ethiopian Serenaders was an American blackface minstrel troupe successful in the 1840s and 1850s. Through various line-ups they were managed and directed by James A. Dumbolton (c.1808–?),[1] and are sometimes mentioned as the Boston Minstrels, Dumbolton Company or Dumbolton's Serenaders.[2]
^U.S. Passport application, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Roll #: 17; Volume #: Roll 017 - 01 Sep 1845-31 Mar 1846. Age given as 37 in 1845
^James A. Dumbolton, Biographical Overview, The JUBA Project. Retrieved 6 October 2020
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