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The 300-strong audience in a local theatre on The Bowery, New York City, USA, cheer blackface entertainer Thomas Dartmouth 'Daddy' Rice so enthusiastically that he performs his song and dance routine, Jump Jim Crow. The song will cause a sensation and is considered a forerunner of the Minstrel Show tradition, based largely on mockery of black Americans.
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