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Les in Chorlton Darkie Day - BBC Radio 4 on "The Untold" (89* d) RE: Darkie Day - BBC Radio 4 on "The Untold" 22 Feb 16

So, it absolutely has no origin or connection with Blackface Minstrelsy that grew up in the US in the 19C and swept through Music Halls and into all manner of local events in which white people blacked up and sang things like:

Old Uncle Ned Written & Composed by Stephen C. Foster
New York: Millet's Music Salon, 1848

Den lay down de shubble and de hoe,
Hang up de fiddle and de bow:
No more hard work for poor Old Ned-
He's gone whar de good Niggas go,
No more hard work for poor Old Ned-
He's gone whar de good Niggas go.

Is that right then?

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