Raynor HCA 2014-04
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Songsheet “The Negro Emancipation Song,” by S. Fillmore Bennett, Chicago, 1862, 10” x 13,’ uncolored 6pp. Written in five dialect stanzas, the lyrics celebrate Lincoln and Emancipation. In part, “Dat de Yankee sogers boys, An’ Ole Abe was comin! Hallelujah to a day, De mancipation comin. Massa say de Leinkum folks, Make de confiscation, Did’nt hear quite all he said, While his tongue was runnin, But I spect it mean de day O’ mancipation comin! ...” Disbound, VG.
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