(MUSIC) Old Dominion Slave Troupe

Sale 2204 - Lot 336

Price Realized: $ 1,200

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800

(MUSIC.) Old Dominion Slave Troupe! Small letterpress broadside, 8-7/8x4-7/8 inches; creases where folded; small piece of paper pasted over "Slave Troupe," printed backwards, with "Town Hall, Saturday eve, July 20" handwritten in old iron gall ink; price of "20cts" crossed out and "5cts" substituted. United States, circa 1877

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We found a record of an "Old Dominion Slave Troupe" performing in the Mid-West in 1877. The broadside states that the troupe was organized in 1871 in Charleston. In addition to the songs of the Troupe, other artists included "The Black Diamonds," whose act "abounds in wonderful tambourine, bone and guitar solos, beautiful plantation melodies and refrains that produce a correct portrait of life in the sunny south before the war."