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The Negro forget-me-not songster, the only work published, containing all the Negro songs, that have ever appeared.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00796 Author/Creator: Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Book Date: 1844 Pagination: 1 v. : 226 p. : ill. Height: 12.3 cm, Width: 8.3 cm Order a Copy

Signed on free front endpaper by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "H. W. Longfellow." Original cloth spine laid onto modern leather. Title on spine: "Nigga forget-me-not songster." Published by Turner & Fisher. Songs written in "dialect," and some are accompanied by black and white illustrations.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Turner & Fisher (Philadelphia, Penn.), fl. 1830-1860

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