“Composed for a group of overland emigrants, who left Massachusetts, in the spring of 1849.”
Category: social
Walk in the Parlor (1850s)
Note especially the connections delineated between slavery, land, and knowledge…
Home, Sweet Home (Bishop & Payne, 1823)
John Howard Payne’s lyrics, from the 1823 opera, “Clari, Maid of Milan”, described as “a jewel, cut and set with perfect art”:
Gum Tree Canoe (1847?)
A peculiar plantation fantasy of love & liberation…
Here I Am as You Diskiver (1860)
Blackface minstrel tune conflating plantation slavery, the “Indian Nation” (& associated issues of Removal), & antebellum militarism in public space:
The Hardtacks 