[Song sheet]: A Contraband Song: Old Shady. The following rare lyric is the favorite freedom song of the Mississippi Contrabands. Its character and enthusiasm are great, and, among songs of its kind i

by [HANBY, Benjamin Russel]

$500 · Offered by Between the Covers

[Philadelpha]: Published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, [circa 1863]. Unbound. First edition. Broadside. Single sheet printed recto only. 5.5" x 9.5" Lightly foxed, creasing in lower corner, a very good copy. Written in five stanzas, with chorus to the song, "Away Down South," the first stanza begins..... More

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