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Brilliant show very much appreciated by the Pensioner generation of the period but excoriated by posing, and self-important, virtue-signalling teens and twenties in the 1980s on the fake basis of racism. Those people do not believe that Black Minstrels existed at all. Yet Minstrels were popular in Victorian times in the U.S and in the U.K. Both Black Minstrels (and whte who blacked up), could be seen playing in the streets as a means of collecting money to stay alive. There was no intention to mock anyone because the songs they sang and the instruments played were the same for both; as was the poverty whichdrove them there Many well known tunes such as Dixie came from the Northern Minstrel Theatre; and that was actually written by a Black family but is ascribed to Daniel Decatur Emmet. It was popular with both sides in the American War Between The States. In fact it was the song at the Victory Parade requested by President Lincoln himself.

A dreadful travesty in the telling of the story of the contest between Liverpool's (English) Lt Colonel Banastre Tarleton and General Francis Marion, the American colonial known as The Swamp fox. Lt Colonel Tarleton was the creator of the American Legion and the famous Tarleton Helmet, loyal to the British Crown. Americans call Col Tarleton "Bloody Ban" and he was harsh to captured colonials; rightly believing them to be guilty of Seditious Treason. In fact Marion was far worse than the British in that war. He also had a reputation for brutalising his slaves and raping the women. The film ludicrously has Major Tavington locking the colonials in a church and setting it on fire. This was what happened to the Village of Oradur Sur Gleine, France, at the hands of the SS in WWII. The invidious comparison is not lost on this Liverpool lad who holds his fellow citizen Lt. Colonel Tarleton in high esteem. He was what the Americans call "a rough old cove"; except the Colonel was more honourable and gentlemanly than his adversary. The film seems mainly fantasy and very biased against the truth of Britain's war to retain her colonies in the Americas. And we would have freed the slaves long before 1863 had we won.