USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer who sang songs and played musical instruments.

Detailed explanation-2: -And then they would include a section called the Dandy Darkies (ph), where they would have white men in blackface perform pretty standard songs. And “Jingle Bells, ”-or as it was known in 1857, “The One Horse Open Sleigh”-was performed by someone named Johnny Pell.