(MUSIC) RICE THOMAS DADDY Jim Crow a Celebrated Comic Song o

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(MUSIC.) RICE, THOMAS "DADDY." Jim Crow, a Celebrated Comic Song or Ballad as Sung By the Comic Singers. Composed and Arranged for the Piano Forte. Four pages. Full-page engraved cover and two additional pages of printed music; separated at the spine; paper toned with a couple of early archival repairs and tiny chips. New York: Atwill's Music Salon, circa late 1830s-1840s

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The piece of music that was the origin of the term "Jim Crow," consisting of a chorus and 21 quatrain verses. The words and music have been ascribed to Thomas Dartmouth (Daddy) Rice, the famous black minstrel who introduced the piece as a song and dance around 1830.