• Fig. 15. A rendering of the auction scene from a production of The Octoroon at London’s Adelphi Theatre, November 1861. From The Illustrated London News, November 30, 1861. NYU Bobst Special Collections, SpecCol AP4 .I5 Oversize, New-York Historical Society.

Auction scene from Dion Boucicault's The Quadroon, Adelphi Theatre, London (1861)

From Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75 by Michael D'Alessandro

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  • American Studies
  • Class Studies
  • Theater and Performance
  • Literary Studies:American Literature
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  • 1861
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