…updates Dan Emmett’s “Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel” for an abolitionist audience.
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Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel (Emmett, 1853)
Here are a few versions of Dan Emmett’s song, displaying the far-reaching sense of international politics and breaking-news commentary to be found on the antebellum popular stage…
Richmond a Hard Road to Travel (1862)
An annotated look at an epic parody…