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Uncle Ned

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1848

WARNING: This is a blackface minstrel song, a genre that features demeaning caricatures rooted in racism and white supremacy.

“Uncle Ned” was submitted for copyright deposit by W. C. Peters & Co. in Louisville on December 30, 1848. 

According to Evelyn Foster Mornweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family:

Under the Willow She’s Sleeping

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1860

“Under the Willow She’s Sleeping” was submitted for copyright deposit on May 3, 1860, by Firth, Pond & Co.

According to Evelyn Foster Morneweck in The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family: