Contraband schottische,sheet music cover,slaves,1861

Title: The 'contraband' schottische
Related Names:
T. Sinclair's Lith.
Date Created/Published: Philadelphia : Published by Lee & Walker, 1861.
Summary: A sheet music cover with a comic scene of escaping slaves, produced around the time of Union general Benjamin F. Butler's declaration of such fugitives as contraband of war. (See 'The (Fort) Monroe Doctrine,' no. 1861-37.) The song was composed by Septimus Winner, and dedicated to Butler. Four black men tumble down a grassy knoll, pursued by a planter or overseer who hastens down the steps behind. The music cover was deposited for copyright on August 7, 1861.
Notes:
Philadelphia. Published by Lee & Walker 722 Chesnut St.
Thomas Sinclair's Lith. Phila.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1861-38.
Subjects:
Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1795-1858.
Plantations--1860-1870.
Slavery--1860-1870.
Fort Monroe (Va.)--1860-1870.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Sheet music covers--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2008661635/
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