The original Norfolk Jubilee Singers from Norfolk, Va. : a genuine slave band ... Capt. F. G. Brayton, manager ...

The original Norfolk Jubilee Singers from Norfolk, Va. : a genuine slave band ... Capt. F. G. Brayton, manager ...

Norfolk Jubilee Singers

From the Program in African American History, Library Company of Philadelphia: "The Norfolk Jubilee Singers were a popular music group founded in the 1870s after the success of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. This broadside features portraits of six unnamed African-American singers and a large vignette showing enslaved people in a cotton field. It also features endorsements from two ministers, and promises 'Southern songs of the old plantation, which for melody and harmony are unsurpassed.'"

Below the plantation scene is the legend: "They are genuine Colored People, Emancipated by President Lincoln's Great Proclamation of Freedom ..."

List of 90 songs on verso, with the caption: The songs will be selected from the following programme.

Stamped at head of title: "School House Hall Proctorsville, Tuesday Eve'ng. June 29."

[Vermont] : [publisher not identified], [1880?]

1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 41 x 28 cm.

Broadside Size C 784.756 N762

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