In the 17th century Europeans began to establish settlements in the Americas. The division of the land into smaller units under private ownership became known as the plantatioâ¦n system. Starting in Virginia the system spread to the New England colonies. Crops grown on these plantations such as tobacco, rice, sugar cane and cotton were labour intensive. Slaves were in the fields from sunrise to sunset and at harvest time they did an eighteen hour day. Women worked the same hours as the men and pregnant women were expected to continue until their child was born.
Burlesque is a humorous theatrical entertainment involving parody and sometimes extreme exaggeration, yes..this is all I found. but what about, new burlesque? A new generation nostalgic for the spectacle and perceived glamour of the old times determined to bring burlesque back.
minstrel show. 1. a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor.