The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121919 Message #2667972
Posted By: Richard Bridge
30-Jun-09 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: Motley Morris banned !
Subject: RE: Motley Morris banned !
So there we seem to have it. The usually well informed Borchester Echo seems to say that blackface was disguise. The usually well informed Ruth Archer says it was not.
No-one comments on Anglian molly blackface.
Some say that there was a blackface border tradition predating minstrelsy. Some say there wasn't.