February 6. The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show in the United States in1843.

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Feb. 6, 1843 – At the Bowery Amphitheater in New York City The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show in        the United States.•  Sheet music by the Christy Minstrels, published in 1848 in Boston, litho by Bufford.

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