Episode 253: I Was a Radical
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Episode 253: I Was a Radical

B2Upper-intermediateApril 13, 202633 min

Following the end of the war, Black, Mexican and Amerindian veterans returned home to find that, despite being treated as fully American during their service, the nation tried to treat them as second-class citizens. It didn’t take too long for these veterans to decide they were not going to tolerate that.

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in the Antebellum period, most notably in the early 1830s.

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Thomas Dartmouth-Datty Rice was an ITinerant actor in the United States who rose to popularity in the Antebellum period, most notably in the early 1830s. And though he was by no means the first to do so, Rice became one of the most famous of the men who had don rags and performed in black face, creating some of the worst stereotypes

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of black people in the process. During one such performance, perhaps as early as 1828, Rice Incorporated a black face song in dance never-induced routine called Jump Gym Crow, which became immensely popular and imitated by minstrel shows in the coming decades.

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The character from this song of dance was so popular in fact that by the late 1830s, Jim Crow was a perjord of way of saying a black person. Then as early as 1842, we find it being used to describe train cars in Massachusetts that were reserved for blacks, which was its first time being used in the context of segregation.

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