110 Verses Jim Crow Still Alive! ... and: New Verses. Dinah Crow

by Minstrelry

$15,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Double sheet broadside with vignette images. Folio 18 x 21 inches . Creased, folded, minor marginal losses at edges. Item #334847 Jump Jim Crow is believed to have originated in the late 1820s by a blackface minstrel performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice. The earliest known broadside songsheets were published in the 1830s, with the racist genre peaking in popularity over the next three decades prior to the Civil War. Images of black

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