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Dan Emmett

Dan Emmett was a American songwriter and entertainer and he began the “blackface” minstrel fad. These performances are nowadays considered incredibly racist and hateful but during that time they were great fun and provided people with much entertainment. Blackface entertainment was the style of white men coloring their face’s black and impersonating black caricatures. Although the Blackface trend was perhaps short lived it was widely loved by a large population of people. Dan Emmett was also famous for his famous songs. Some of the most famous include “Polly Wolly Doodle”,”Old Dan Tucker”,and “Walk Along John”. Because of this Dan Emmett was inducted into the Songwriter Hall Of Fame. People often find it difficult nowadays to look past his incredible capacity for racism but it is important to realize that this was a completely different time and this man was truly a legend and he wrote songs that are still relevant and remembered today. Dan Emmett does receive the credit he is due though, Paramount Pictures released a movie entitled “Dixie” that was about Dan’s life and his entertainment venues.Dan died on June twenty eighth when he was 88 years old. He lived an eventful controversial life but his various works and contributions will certainly not be forgotten.

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John Copley

John Copley was a famous colonial painter. He painted portraits of rich upper class citizens. Since people in this time people had no TV or video games many enjoyed looking at art and John Copley’s was particularly liked since it incorporated significant items in the person’s life in the painting. As John became more and more famous he began receiving requests from more important people. Some of these include Paul Revere,John and Dorothy Hancock,Thomas Gage, and Sam Adams. A sign of being a wealthy person and someone who was able to spend his money on leisure items was to have a portrait of you or your family in your house, particularly a John Copley painting was a status symbol.Paintings were one of the few good colonial art forms and the upper class loved critiquing and evaluating each other’s family portraits and paintings.John Singleton Copley started painting when he was about thirteen years old and ever since then he has inspired people to copy his style and create their own paintings and their own portraits. John Copley’s art became so well liked and famous that it moved all throughout Europe and he toured doing portraits for more and more people.He died in 1815 in the West Indies.

Philip Freneau

Philip Freneau was a colonial poet in the eighteenth century. He is often referred to as “The Poet of the American Revolution” because of his nationalist beliefs and the way his used his skill with writing for political gains. During the time of Philip’s life there was a great struggle for leadership and there was an even larger need for information and literature not necessarily solely for entertainment.Freneau wrote a number of pieces solely for entertainment but he also wrote quite a few anti-British pieces that in the end got him in a bit of trouble.He spent six weeks of his live incarcerated by the British. Freneau also created the first colonial poem about love. Since love is such a universal emotion people have always wanted to read about it and watch things relating to it.Philip Freneau’s works were read by both the common man looking for a story about love or looking for political advice and by upperclassmen looking for a sophisticated story and a political outlook against the British. Philip Freneau died on December 18th,1832 because he got drunk stumbled into a forest and later froze to death. That is the way a true American leader dies.

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My other two Biographies are printed out I forgot to post them. I have three done. Sorry :,(

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Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet was the first known colonist to have published poetry. She was also a woman. She was the first woman to be published in “Colonial America”. Anne Bradstreet was born in England but she immigrated to America in 1630 aboard the Arbella as a part of the Winthrop Fleet. Anne’s strong education gave her the ability to be able to write about politics, history, medicine and theology. Anne’s personal life inspired her to write about her affliction and caused her to turn to a more religious stand point in her poems to look for divine help. Many consider Anne Bradstreet to not only have been a very successful poet and a large entertainer but she was also considered to be one of the first colonial feminists. She was a free thinker and incredibly intelligent. Anne’s works became world renown when her brother brought to London without her knowing and got them published. Poetry was a huge intellectual influence on the colonists and Anne Bradstreet’s poetry was particularly intelligent and fluent. Anne died on September 16th 1672 and she is either buried next to her husband in Salem or in North Andover.

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