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Title

The liberty minstrel / by Geo. W. Clark.

Author

Clark, George Washington, 1812-

Publication

New-York : Leavitt & Alden [i.e. Allen], 7 Cornhill, Boston: Saxton & Miles, 205 Broadway, N.Y.: Myron Finch, 120 Nassau St., N.Y.: Jackson & Chaplin, 38 Dean St., Albany, N.Y.: Jackson & Chaplin, corner Genessee and Main St., Utica, N.Y., 1845.

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Additional Authors

• Finch, Myron
• Leavitt & Allen, publisher.
• Saxton & Miles, publisher.
• Jackson & Chaplin, publisher.
• S.W. Benedict & Co., printer.

Description

iv, [1], 6-184, [4] p. : music; 17 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Songsters
• Slavery > Songs and music
• Liberty > Songs and music
• African Americans > Songs and music
• Slavery > United States > Songs and music

Genre/Form

Songsters.

Note

• "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1844, by George W. Clark, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "S.W. Benedict & Co., music stereotypers and printers, 16 Spruce St. N.Y."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• For 2 to 4 voices unaccompanied.
• English words.
• Includes index, p. [1]-[3] at end.
• Last page blank.

Indexed In (note)

• Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Preface -- Gone, sold and gone -- What means that sad and dismal look? / words by Geo. Russell, arranged from “Near the lake” by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- The slave boy’s wish / by Eliza Lee Follen [text only] -- The bereaved father / words by Miss Chandler, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Slave girl mourning her father / parodied from Mrs. Sigourney by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- The slave and her babe / words by Charlotte Elizabeth ; air: Slave girl mourning her father [text only] -- The negro’s appeal / words by Cowper, tune: Isle of beauty -- Negro boy sold for a watch / words by Cowper, arranged by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] from an old theme -- I am monarch of nought I survey : a parody ; air: Old Dr. Fleury -- The Afric’s dream / words by Miss Chandler, “Emigrant’s lament” arranged by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Song of the coffle gang / words by the slaves, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Hark! I hear a sound of anguish ; air: Calvary -- Brothers be brave for the pining slave : air: Sparkling and bright -- The quadroon maiden / words by Longfellow, theme from the Indian maid -- Domestic bliss / by Rev. James Gregg [text only] -- Oh pity the slave mother / words from the Liberator, air: Araby’s daughter -- How long! O! how long! [text only] -- The fugitive slave to the Christian / words by Elizur Wright Jr., music arranged from Cracovienne -- The strength of tyranny [text only] -- The blind slave boy / words by Mrs. Dr. Bailey, music arranged from Sweet Afton -- Slave’s wrongs / words by Miss Chandler, arranged from Rose of Allandale -- My child is gone / music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Comfort in affliction / words by William Leggett, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- The poor little slave : from The charter oak [text only] -- The bereaved mother / words by Jesse Hutchinson, air Kathleen O’Moore -- Heard ye that cry : from Wind of the winter night -- Sleep on my child / by R.J.H. [text only] -- Zaza—the female slave / words by Miss Ball, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Prayer for the slave : tune: Hamburgh -- Remembering that God is just [text only] -- The fugitive / words by L.M.C., air: Bonny Doon -- Am I not a man and brother? / words by A.C.L., air: Bride’s farewell -- Am I not a sister? / by A.C.L. [text only] -- Ye heralds of freedom / music by Kingsley -- I would not live always / by Pierpont [text only] -- Our Pilgrim fathers / words by Pierpont, music from Minstrel boy by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Stanzas for the times / words by J.G. Whittier, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- To those I love / words by Miss E.M. Chandler, music from an old air by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- We’re coming! We’re coming! : air: Kinloch of Kinloch -- Rouse up, New England / words by a Yankee, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Rise, freemen, rise / music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- A beacon has been lighted / parody by G.W.C. [George W. Clark], air: Blue-eyed Mary -- Our countrymen in chains / words by Whittier, Beatitude by T. Hastings -- Myron Holley / by W.H. Burleigh [text only] -- Voice of New England against slavery / words by Whittier, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- The clarion of freedom / words from The Emancipator, music: The chariot -- Strike for liberty / words from the Christian Freemen, air: Scots wha hae -- On to victory / by Rev. Mrs. Martyn [text only] -- The man for me / parody by J.N.T. Tucker, air: The rose that all are praising -- Pilgrim song / words by Geo. Lunt, air: Troubadour -- The bondman / from The Liberator [text only] -- Fourth of July / words by Mrs. Sigourney, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Ye spirits of the free : air: My faith looks up to thee -- Sing me a triumph song [text only] -- Wake, sons of the pilgrims : air: McGregor’s gathering -- Our countrymen are dying / words by C.W. Dennison, tune: From Greenland’s icy mountain -- We ask not martial glory [text only] -- Come, join the abolitionists : air: When I can read my title clear -- We are come, all come / by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- The law of love / words by a lady, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Oh! Charity! [text only] -- The mercy seat / words by Mrs. Sigourney, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Friend of the friendless [text only] -- Wake ye numbers! / words by Lewis, air: Strike the cymbals -- Comfort for the bondman : air: Indian philosopher -- Come and see the works of God [text only] -- Hark! A voice from heaven / words by Oliver Johnson, music: Zion -- The pleasant land we love / words by N.P. Willis, air: Carrier dove -- The freed slave [text only] -- The liberty flag / altered from J.H. Aikman [text only] -- March to the battlefield / parody by G.W.C. [George W. Clark], air: Oft in the stilly night -- Oft in the chilly night / by Pierpont [text only] -- Song of the free / parodied by G.W.C. [George W. Clark], tune: Lutzow’s Wild hunt -- Holy freedom / by Pierpont [text only] -- Ye sons of freemen / words by Mrs. J.G. Carter, air: Marseilles hymn -- Are yet truly free? / words by J.R. Lowell, air: Martyn -- That’s my country [text only] -- Liberty battle-song / from The Emancipator, air: Our warrior’s heart -- Birney and liberty [text only] -- The ballot-box : air: from Lincoln -- Christian mother / by Miss C. -- The liberty party / words by E. Wright Jr., tune: ‘Tis dawn, the lark is singing -- Be free, O man, be free / words by Mary H. Maxwell, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Arouse! Arouse! [text only] -- The last night of slavery : tune: Cherokee death-song -- The little slave girl / words by a lady, air: Morgiana in Ireland -- Stolen we were / words by a colored man -- A vision / words by Crary, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Get off the track / words by Jess Hutchinson, air: Dan Tucker -- Emancipation song / words from the Bangor gazette, air: Crambambule -- Harbinger of liberty / words by a lady, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Light of truth [text only] -- Ode to James G. Birney / words by Elizur Wright, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- A tribute to departed worth -- The liberty voter’s song / words by E. Wright, Jr., air: from Niel Gow’s farewell -- The liberty ball / [words by] G.W.C. [George W. Clark], air: Rosin the bow -- The trumpet of freedom [text only] -- Break every yoke : tune: O no, we never mention her -- The Yankee girl / words by Whittier, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Freedom’s gathering / words from the Pennsylvania Freeman, music by G.W.C. [George W. Clark] -- Be kind to each other / by Charles Swain [text only] -- Praise and prayer / words by Miss Chandler -- The slave’s lamentation / a parody by Tucker, air: Long, long ago -- The stranger and his friend / [by] Montgomery and Denison, tune: Duane Street -- We’re for freedom though the land / words by J.E. Robinson, music arranged from the Old granite state -- We are all children of one parent / words from the Youth’s cabinet, music by L. Mason -- The slave’s lamentation / a parody by Tucker, air: Long, long ago -- Manhood / by Robert Burns, tune: Our warrior’s hearts [text only] -- The poor voter’s song : air: Lucy Long [text only] -- The flying slave : from the Bangor gazette, air: To Greece we give our shing blades [text only] -- Fro the election : tune: Scots wha hae with Wallace bled [text only] -- Hail the day! : air: Wreathe the bowl [text only] -- The ballot / by J.E. Dow, air: Bonnie Doon [text only] -- The spirit of the Pilgrims : tune: Be free, oh man, be free [text only] -- What mean ye? : tune: Ortonville [text only] -- Hymn for children / by W.S. Abbott, air: Miss Lucy Long [text only] -- Liberty glee : tune: The pirate’s glee -- March on! March on! : tune: The pirate’s glee.

Call Number

Sc Rare 784.71-C (Clark, G. W. Liberty minstrel)

OCLC

• 5160674
• NYPGR5160674-B

Author

Clark, George Washington, 1812-

Title

The liberty minstrel / by Geo. W. Clark.

Imprint

New-York : Leavitt & Alden [i.e. Allen], 7 Cornhill, Boston: Saxton & Miles, 205 Broadway, N.Y.: Myron Finch, 120 Nassau St., N.Y.: Jackson & Chaplin, 38 Dean St., Albany, N.Y.: Jackson & Chaplin, corner Genessee and Main St., Utica, N.Y., 1845.

Indexed In:

Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America, p. 39

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 2345

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 784.71-C (accession no. B593934) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Leavitt & Allen, publisher.

Saxton & Miles, publisher.

Finch, Myron, publisher.

Jackson & Chaplin, publisher.

S.W. Benedict & Co., printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 784.71-C (Clark, G. W. Liberty minstrel)

Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. (Clark. Liberty minstrel. 1845)