“Composed for a group of overland emigrants, who left Massachusetts, in the spring of 1849.”
Category: Hutchinson Family (composers)
Hutchinson: “The Story of the Hutchinsons (Tribe of Jesse)” (1896)
Invaluable insights into one of the most famous singing families of the Antebellum era.
Hutchinson: “Republican Songster” (1860)
Shows how activist performers used music to advance their anti-slavery agenda during a tumultuous political season …
Slavery is a Hard Foe to Battle (Hutchinson Family, 1855)
…updates Dan Emmett’s “Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel” for an abolitionist audience.
Uncle Sam’s Farm: “One grand, ocean-bound republic”
Stephen A. Douglas (1858): “This Union will not only live forever, but it will extend and expand until it covers the whole continent, and makes this confederacy one grand, ocean-bound Republic…”
