I'm going back to Alabam' to die; Plantation melody

Item Information

• Item ID
  b0629
• Instrumentation
  voice; piano; chorus (SATB)
• Dedicatee
  Isaac N. Hahn, Memphis, Tenn.
• DCMI Type
  Still Image
• Is Part Of
  1870-1879
• Publisher
  W.L. Thompson
• State of Publication
  Ohio
• City of Publication
  East Liverpool
• Genre
  sheet music
• Title
  I'm going back to Alabam' to die; Plantation melody
• Refrain
  O do e darkies know that I'm a coming?
• Composer
  Routledge, John T.
• Lithographer
  W.J. Morgan
• Date
  1878
• First Line
  I want to see the dear old home again
• Subject
  Songs with piano
  Songs
  Landscapes
  Legacies of Racism and Discrimination--Afro-Americans
  Entertainment
  Legacies of Racism and Discrimination--Stereotypes--Afro-Americans
  Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
  plantations
  Afro-Americans
  Human Activities of Ordinary People--Groups
  Cabins
  Society and Culture--State songs--Alabama
  Plantations

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