minstrel

shows was most popular musical stage shows of the early and mid 19th century
it was founded on the comic enactment of racial stereotypes
if portrayed a exaggerated portrayal of african american music, culture, vernacular english for entertainment
performers both white and black donned blackface
in these shows white men blackened their faces with burnt cork to lampoon blacks, performing songs and skits tat sentimentalised slave life in the southern plantations.
18th-19th century.
coon - violent uneducated black adult male
Nammie - black mother type figure.
piccanine - is a unkept uneducated young child.