notes Abbreviations BL British Library, London HL Huntington Library, San Marino, CA HSP Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia LCP Library Company of Philadelphia LCPlays Lord Chamberlain’s Plays collection, British Library NA National Archives, London (former Public Records Office) Thcts Theatre Cuts collection, British Library Introduction • Political and Cultural Exchange in the British Atlantic 1. William Wilberforce to his sister, Nov. 26, 1787, in The Correspondence of William Wilberforce , vol. 1, edited by Robert Isaac Wilberforce and Samuel Wilberforce (1840; reprint, Miami: Mnemosyne, 1969), 50. 2. Elizabeth Inchbald, “Remarks to Inkle and Yarico” (1787), in Remarks for the British Theatre, ed. Cecilia Machevski (New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1990). 3. Inchbald, “Remarks to Inkle and Yarico,” in George Colman, Inkle and Yarico, an Opera in Three Acts: As Performed at the Covent-Garden, Hay-market, and New-York Theaters (New York, 1806). 4. Daily Register, Aug. 6, 1787; Lloyd’s Evening Post, Dec. 1791. 5. The London Stage, 1660–1800, part 5: 1776–1800, ed. C. B. Hogan (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968), 3:clxxiii. 6. Inchbald, “Remarks to Inkle and Yarico” (1806). 7. Frances Maria Kelly, diary, BL MS 42920 fols. 120–210b. 8. The songs were published in the Times, Aug. 5, 1787, and the Morning Chronicle, Aug. 6, 1787. Examples of Yarico’s story as the basis of antislavery poetry include John Anketell, Poems on Several Subjects; by [ . . . ] John Aketell. To which are added, The epistle of Yarico to Inkle (London and Dublin, 179?), and John Wolcott, Yarico to Incle (London, 1793). 9. Gary B. Nash, “ Reverberations of Haiti in the American North: Black Saint Dominguans in Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania History 65: Explorations in Early American Culture (1998): 44–73, 50. 10. Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), Dec. 31, 1791. For the impact of the Saint Domingue refugees and their recalcitrant slaves on the northern cities of the early American republic, see Nash, “Reverberations of Haiti,” and Ashli White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). 11. William McKoy, “Long Syne Papers,” originally published in Poulson’s Daily Advertiser 2 (n.d.): 34, and reproduced in Poulson’s Scrapbook of Philadelphia History (Philadelphia , 1828), 4:16. William McKoy published essays under the signature “Long Syne” in Poulson’s Daily Advertiser; his essays, along with other materials, were republished in 1828 as Poulson’s Scrapbook of Philadelphia History. 12. Charles Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage from the Year 1749 to the Year 1855, 258 Notes to Pages 4–8 Partly Compiled from the Papers of His Father, the late John Durang (Philadelphia, 1854), 1:fol. 25. 13. Ibid., 1:fol. 75. 14. Pennsylvania Packet, May 17, 1790. 15. George Colman Jr., Inkle and Yarico (Philadelphia, 1792). 16. Playbills for Pennsylvania Packet, May 17, 1790; Pennsylvania Journal, May 1790; Pennsylvania Journal, June 27, 1792. 17. Pennsylvania Packet, May 17, 1790. 18. Gazette of the United States, June 1797; Pennsylvania Daily Advertiser, June 1797. 19. Pennsylvania Journal, June 27, 1792. 20. Gazette of the United States, June 1797; Pennsylvania Daily Advertiser, June 1797. 21. Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 3:fol. 261. 22. Comte du Buffon, Historie naturelle: dediee au Citoyen Lacépede, membre de L’Institute , Matières Générales Tome Huiteme (Paris, 1799). 23. Roxann Wheeler, The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in EighteenthCentury British Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), 9; Felicity Nussbaum, The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 2–3 and 254–55. 24. Robert Nowatski, Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010), 2. Sarah Meer, Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005). 25. Morning Chronicle, Oct. 27, 1788. 26. Olive Logan, Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes (Philadelphia, 1869), 87–88. Logan was an actress who had a long career before writing her memoir. Although she was not on stage in the 1790s, she references iconic blackface characters in plays first performed in the eighteenth century, from Wowski in Inkle and Yarico to Mungo in Isaac Bickerstaffe’s The Padlock, another comic blackface slave character, suggesting that a tradition was established early on for how and which characters should be “blacked up.” 27. Theatrical Censor, Feb. 3, 1800. 28. Edmund Burke, The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, vol. 3: The French Revolution, ed...