| Author Name: | Dickens, Charles |
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| Topic: | Blackface Minstrelsy |
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In this book Charles Dickens describes his encounter with the American continent. The author criticizes American society for its preoccupation with money, and reliance on slavery, as well as the rude, unsavory manners of Americans and their corrupt press. The author includes in this book a description of William Henry Lane dancing as Juba at the Five Points.