 So 1830s, 1840s, blackface begins in earnest. Wearing and performing blackface meant depicting African-Americans in racist caricatures. And T.D. Rice's blackface minstrel performance was in hot demand. T.D. Rice either was jumping Jim Crow in New York or in Ohio and Cincinnati. And this is like between opera acts. This is between Shakespeare in theater. This is how blackface gets introduced to the wider public.