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[Broadside Music] - THAT MAN HAS SEEN BETTER DAYS. / WHEN SAILING On DE OHIO. / OH: SAMBO WHITE, In LUB I'M QUITE

 1546093222,
Durham [England]: Walker, Printer, (n. d.). Ca 1850s - 1860s. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Single sheet, printed recto only. Text two columns. Printer's series "[10]" under last verse. Ornamental border. Wood cut Illustration of woman giving alms to beggar. 9-7/8" x 7-1/4". Some light edge rash & age-toning. A solid VG copy. First line of The Man that Has Seen Better Days: "No doubt you all wonder what object this is." First line of When Sailing on De Ohio: "A summer day, it feels so gay." First line of Oh: Sambo White, in Lub I'm Quite: "Oh! Sambo White, pray come dis night." A scarce mid-19th C broadside, which features one song professing to know the heart & soul of the black man in bondage. "But when him on de ribber side, / Him like to see de flowing tide, / And hear de rushing as it blow, ob de Ohio.".
USD 412.50 [Appr.: EURO 356.75 | £UK 311 | JP¥ 60983] Book number 35583

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