A contraband song: The following rare lyric is the favorite freedom song of the Mississippi Contrabands. Its character and enthusiasm are great, and, among songs of its kind it has no superior. A well-known anti-slavery gentlemen of this city presents it to Forney's Press as a curiosity of contraband genius: Old Shady. : Air--Away down South

A contraband song: The following rare lyric is the favorite freedom song of the Mississippi Contrabands. Its character and enthusiasm are great, and, among songs of its kind it has no superior. A well-known anti-slavery gentlemen of this city presents it to Forney's Press as a curiosity of contraband genius: Old Shady. : Air--Away down South

Without music; Song in five stanzas. By Benjamin Russel Hanby and copyright 1861 by O. Ditson & Co. See Minstrel songs, old and new (Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, c1882) p. 22.

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Original record: A contraband song: The following rare lyric is the favorite freedom song of the Mississippi Contrabands. Its character and enthusiasm are great, and, among songs of its kind it has no superior. A well-known anti-slavery gentlemen of this city presents it to Forney's Press as a curiosity of contraband genius: Old Shady. : Air--Away down South
Collection: Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Date(s): 1861
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Forney's Press (Contributor)
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 (Contributor)
Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867 (Contributor)
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (Brown University)
Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject(s): African American
Broadsides
Civil War, 1861-1865
Freed persons
History
Minstrel songs
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Slavery
Soldiers
Song sheets
Songs and music
United States
Type: text_resources

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