African Minstrels

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The African Minstrels was a minstrels group in Cape Town in circa 1862.


The company

Consisting of eight men under the leadership of "Coloured Captain" Heaven, they are reported as having performed an interlude during a performance of The Miller and His Men and Kiss in the Dark by officers and men from the 11th Regiment in the Barracks Theatre, Cape Town on Tuesday 2 December 1862.

See also Minstrels


Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp.

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