At 09:20 AM 20/05/2001 EDT, you wrote: >I am writing to see if anyone on the list can offer information about the >popular nigger minstrel troupes (somewhat politically *incorrect* as a term >today!:-) who were performing in the UK during the 1880s through to the turn >of the century. > I found some ROGERS in the 1881 census for Birmingham (WAR) who had their occupation as 'Nigger Comedian'. Can anyone tell me if this was the same or something different to the Minstrels please? Thanks, Mary Mary Rogers <[email protected]> Bendigo Australia