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$75.00
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Very good, toning spot on the banquet menu cover
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Variety of sizes
1896 Plantation Memories Minstrel Songs Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society. Mnstrel shows and songs have a controversial spot in American HIstory. "Selections from the Plantation" includes such now considered rascist songs that openly degraded black people in 19th century America. Shows were commonly prformed by white people dressed in blackface. The songster features Stephen Collins Foster, and many of these songs were used to deny black people their basic human rights. Foster's songs also illuminated some of the ongs also illuminated some of the harshest realities of slavery. The songs were sung at the 1896 annual banquet of the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society in Philadelphia, held on February 13th. The twenty page songers, includes lyrics to 11 different songs like "Massa's In De Cold Ground", "My Old Kentucky Home and "Unle Neg" (Dere was an old nigga, dey call'd him Uncle Ned"). With illustration of Foster. Original songster along with a card identifying the recipient with a ribbon, and a banquet menu. Original.
Pennsylvania’s Scots Irish, a hybrid people of Scots and Irish ancestry, were the most numerically predominant group within an Irish diaspora migration that brought between 250,000 and 500,000
$75.00
used
Very good, toning spot on the banquet menu cover
Variety of sizes