Oh! Lemuel! | American Music at Pitt

Oh! Lemuel!

Artist (Composed By):

Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)

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

“Oh Lemuel” was submitted for copyright deposit by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore on January 7, 1850.

Alternate Title:

Oh! Lemuel! Go Down to de Cotton Field

Publication Date:

1850

Published Score:

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Title: Oh! Lemuel!
Date: 1850
Publisher: F.D. Benteen
W.T. Mayo

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Title: Oh! Lemuel!
Date: 1853/1859
Publisher: F.D. Benteen [i.e. Miller & Beacham]
W.T. Mayo

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Title: Oh! Lemuel!
Date: 1853/1859
Publisher: F.D Benteen [i.e. Miller & Beacham]
W.T. Mayo

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Title: Oh! Lemuel!
Date: 1860/1864
Publisher: F.D. Benteen [i.e. Miller & Beacham]
W.T. Mayo

Songbook:

Song and sketch book

White's new illustrated melodeon

Plantation melodies, no. 2