Welcome to the Introduction to Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Birth of American Animation. This section contains all of the media that you will find in the print version of the book's introduction, as well as some limited textual commentary. Each of the links below will take you to the media for the corresponding page in the print book. If you want to skip directly to a specific page in another chapter, you can also scroll over the menu for that chapter on the left.

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