Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show by Richard Wiley

Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show

James A. Michener Fiction

Richard Wiley

278 pages missing pub info (view editions)

fiction historical slow-paced
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In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Edo Bay and "opened" Japan to trade with America. As entertainment for the treaty-signing ceremony, Perry brought a white-men-in-black-face minstrel show--and thereby confirmed the widely whispered Jap...

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