Make my grave in the lowlands low; Negro slaves lament

Item Information

• Description
  Plate no.: 5296.

• Item ID
  b0887
• Instrumentation
  voice; piano; chorus (SATB)
• Performer
  Walter Kittredge; Hutchinson Family
• DCMI Type
  Still Image
• Is Part Of
  1860-1869
• Publisher
  Henry Tolman
• Subject
  Songs with piano
  Legacies of Racism and Discrimination--Afro-Americans
  Entertainment
  Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
• State of Publication
  Massachusetts
• City of Publication
  Boston
• Genre
  sheet music
• Dedicatee
  Tribe of Asa
• Title
  Make my grave in the lowlands low; Negro slaves lament
• Composer
  Kittredge, Walter, 1834-1905
• Date
  1867
• First Line
  This darkey used to long, when he lived in the lowlands
• Refrain
  Down in the low lands, in the southern valley
• Engraver
  W. Davenport

• Copyright & Usage
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