“We’re drinking tonight in the old bar-room,
Give us a glass to cheer…”
Category: comedy
Walk in the Parlor (1850s)
Note especially the connections delineated between slavery, land, and knowledge…
Picayune Butler’s Come to Town (Rice, 1858)
“And when he made his appearance you should have heard the reception he got. I thought the roof would fall off…”: Picayune Butler takes New York & Tokyo by storm.
United States it am de place (Rice, 1858)
This mysterious half-dialect minstrel song from Rice’s 1858 Method for the Banjo offers an intriguing glimpse into the economics and racial politics of the antebellum era…
The Hardtacks 