Unlucky Dinah Crow. Salem, Massachusetts: Joshua Peckham, [ca 1852-1858]. Broadside songsheet, 5 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.
A 3-stanza song written in vernacular dialect about an unfortunate woman named Dinah Crow who was enslaved in Kentucky and drowned in the Ohio River when trying to seek emancipation.
An uncommon pre-Civil War broadside regarding emancipation across the Mason-Dixon.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Broadsides, Ephemera, Printing, Posters, Handbills, Documents] [African Americana, African American History, Black History, Slavery, Enslavement, Abolition, Emancipation]
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