Blackface Minstrelsy

Angelina Baker

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1850

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

“Angelina Baker” was entered for copyright deposit on February 19, 1850, by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore. The earliest copies state on the title page “as sung by the Christy and Campbell Minstrels and New Orleans Serenaders.” Later copies only listed the Christy Minstrels at Edwin P. Christy’s request. 

Away down Souf

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.

“Away down Souf” was submitted for copyright deposit by W. C. Peters of Louisville on December 30, 1848. An advertisement published before that date on September 29, 1848, suggests it was published that day.

Christy, Edwin Pearce

Date of Birth: 
November 28, 1815
Date of Death: 
May 21, 1862

De Camptown Races

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1850

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

“De Camptown Races” was entered for copyright deposit on February 19, 1850, by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore. The earliest copies state on the title page “as sung by the Christy and Campbell Minstrels and New Orleans Serenaders.” Later copies only listed the Christy Minstrels at Edwin P. Christy’s request. 

Dolcy Jones

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1849

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

“Dolcy Jones” was submitted for copyright deposit on November 14, 1849, by Firth, Pond & Co.

Dolly Day

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1850

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

“Dolly Day” was entered for copyright deposit on February 19, 1850, by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore. The earliest copies state on the title page “as sung by the Christy and Campbell Minstrels and New Orleans Serenaders.” Later copies only listed the Christy Minstrels at Edwin P. Christy’s request.

Don’t Bet Your Money on de Shangai

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1861

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

“Don’t Bet Your Money on de Shanghai” was submitted for copyright deposit on March 9, 1861. 

Down among the Cane-Brakes

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

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

“Down among the Cane-Brakes” was dentered for copyright deposit on November 15, 1860, by Firth, Pond & Co.

Eulalie

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1851

“Eulalie” was entered for copyright deposit on December 6, 1851, by Firth, Pond & Co.

The song was arranged for guitar accompaniment and submitted for copyright deposit on January 11, 1853.

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

Farewell My Lilly Dear

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1853

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

“Farewell My Lilly Dear,” arranged for guitar accompaniment, was submitted for copyright deposit on August 26, 1853.

The song also appears in “Old Folks Quadrilles.”

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

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