Dancing for eels, was a scene from an 1848 ?
Dancing for eels, was a scene from an 1848 play, NEW YORK AS IT IS, whose main character is Mose, a fireman (sitting on barrel in top hat). The dancing African America is one of the play's street characters from the lower class neighborhoods of New York
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10667774
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Mary Evans / Everett Collection
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