Christy's Nigga Songster: Containing Songs as are Sung by Christy's, Pierce's, White's, Sable Brothers & Dumbleton's Band of Minstrels

Christy Minstrels, Pierce's New York Ethiopian Minstrels, White's Serenaders, Sable Brothers, Dumbleton's Minstrels

T.W. Strong ; G.W. Cottrel, New York, Boston, 1850

[Minstrel Shows: Popular Depictions of African Americans] 16mo. Bound in publisher's blind tooled, black boards. Gilt spine lettering. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Scattered staining.   Woodcut frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title, illustrations in text. Contains the lyrics of minstrel songs preformed by prominent companies.  Many of the songs are familiar, such as Jimmy Crack Corn, Oh Susannah.  Others are not, such as, "work niggars, work!" [sic]  188 songs on 255 pages.  No date, circa 1845-1850.  This is a rare edition that has only come up for auction twice in the last 50 years.