(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION RECONSTRUCTION) BUTTERWORTH H GF We

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION.) BUTTERWORTH, H. & G.F. We Are Going. Freedmen Seeking Freedom. Three separate folio leaves: cover, decoratively printed in black and red, [2] blank, pp 3-5, [6] blank; some very light wear, a couple of short closed tears. Cincinnati and Chicago: Church and Co; Root & Sons, 1879

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An unusual piece of music, being a ballad celebrating the great "Exodus" of 1879. Following the loss of the War, many white Southerners held such deep resentment toward blacks that it became self-evident that there was never going to be any "getting along." Negroes answered the "Negro Problem" by leaving the South in droves: "We are going, We are going, from the Land we thought was free. . . " exceedingly rare. no copies of this work are located. not in worldcat, not in the levy collection.