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Thread #140533 Message #3230810
Posted By: GUEST,mg
28-Sep-11 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: New evidence for 'shanty' origins?
Subject: RE: New evidence for 'shanty' origins?
Rowing songs by non-blacks? Certainly paddling songs by voyageurs..many were from Orkney Islands..Metis, Iroquois Indians, Sandwich Islanders. Don't know if Blacks were voageurs or not. mg