Tregear's Black Jokes
Tregear's Black Jokes was a collection of more than 40 anti-black racist cartoons, published in London by bookseller G.S. Tregear, Gabriel Shear Tregear in the 1830s. The cartoons could be purchased individually or in bound albums in Tregear's shop. Tregear published two series, ''Life in Philadelphia'' (1833) and ''Tregear's Black Jokes'' (1834), plus additional cartoons. Life in Philadelphia (Tregear) Tregear's first series was published in 1833 under the name "Life in Philadelphia." This was the same name that had been used by American illustrator Edward Williams Clay for Life in Philadelphia, his 1828-1830 cartoon series, published in the United States. "The cartoons were so popular that the term Life in Philadelphia became a standard phrase to refer to fashions, trends, and—most especially—black Philadelphians' social practices and sartorial choices." In 1831, British illustrator William Summers redrew and enlarged ten of Clay's cartoons, which were engraved by Ch ...
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''Life in Philadelphia'' was a series of satirical cartoons drawn and engraved by Edward Williams Clay between 1828 and 1830. He modeled them after the British series ''Life in London'' (1821), by George Cruikshank, George and Robert Cruikshank. The Cruikshank cartoons had mocked supposed class differences; Clay's cartoons mocked supposed racial differences.Jenna B. Gibbs, ''Performing in the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 134-139, 145. The cartoons were highly popular, and were copied by artists in New York and London. ''Life in Philadelphia'' perpetuated a racist stereotype of hyper-elegant blacks, that became a standard trope of minstrel shows in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Background Edward Williams Clay was a Philadelphia lawyer and fashion illustrator, who became the most prolific political cartoonist of the Presidency of Andrew Jackson, Jacksonian Era. The first edition of ''Life ...
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Tregear Breaking Up 1834
Tregear may refer to: People * Chelsey Tregear (1983–), Australian netball player * Edward Tregear (1846–1931), New Zealand public servant * G.S. Tregear (1802–1841), English caricaturist * Mary Tregear (1924–2010), British art historian Places * Mount Tregear, New Zealand * Tregear, Cornwall, England * Tregear, New South Wales Tregear is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tregear is west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Tr ...

The Lubbers Quarrel - Tregear
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pro ...
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Tregear Birthday Party 1834
Tregear may refer to: People * Chelsey Tregear (1983–), Australian netball player * Edward Tregear (1846–1931), New Zealand public servant * G.S. Tregear (1802–1841), English caricaturist * Mary Tregear (1924–2010), British art historian Places * Mount Tregear, New Zealand * Tregear, Cornwall, England * Tregear, New South Wales Tregear is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tregear is west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Tr ...