According to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Michigan’s Ferris State University, a white minstrel show actor named Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice (1808-1860) performed solo skits based on a stereotypical black character named Jim Crow. Rice’s highly exaggerated performance manner was, mostly, based on showing blacks as lazy “darkies” and as natural-born musical talents whose behavior was nonetheless childlike and buffoonish. The name Jim Crow.
they would tie the animal skin over the wood and hit on the animal skin to create a vibration which would bounce off of the wood, creating the drum sound
