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Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

Nicholas Sammond, Author

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James Stuart Blackton

James Stuart Blackton, born in Lincolnshire England, was a cartoonist and journalist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and New York Evening World. He had a vaudeville act called Lightning Sketches, in which he drew as he lectured—often making crude ethnic jokes. He sometimes did his act in a dress, as "Madamoiselle Stuart."

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