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Thread #97472   Message #1919252
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
26-Dec-06 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: origin: Sugar Hill
Subject: RE: origin: Sugar Hill
There are several of these songsters.
1850, Christy's Nigga Songster, as sung by Christy's, Pierce's, White's, and Dumbleton's Minstrels, available at
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/minstrel/misocat.html
Christy 1850
You will have to read through it all; nothing titled 'Sugar Hill.'

Library of Congress has no copy of 'Sugar Hill' from 19th c.
Library of Congress has nothing composed by 'George Washington Dixon (1801-, although he was a noted comic singer, esp. 'Zip Coon' (1834 copy, not original?, at American Memory).