Olio

Fisk Jubilee Proclamation

Julius Monroe Trotter submission to The Crisis

Jubilee Blues

Blind Tom plays for Confederate troops, 1863

General James Bethune and John Bethune introduce Blind Tom

What marked Tom?

Mark Twain v. Blind Tom

Blind Tom plays for a packed house, 1873

Millie McKoy & Christine McKoy recall meeting Blind Tom, 1877

What the wind, rain, and thunder said to Tom

General Bethune v. W.C. Handy, 1885

Charity on Blind Tom

Eliza Bethune v. Charity Wiggins

General Bethune on Blind Tom

Duet: Blind Boone meets Blind Tom, 1889

Blind Tom plays on ...

Blind Tom: one body, two graves; Brooklyn/Georgia

Jubilee: Isaac Dickerson (1852-1900)

Interview: Della Marie Jenkins, RN

Jubilee: Eliza Walker (1857-?)

Millie and Christine McKoy

Millie-Christine: on display

Millie-Christine are kidnapped

Millie-Christine's love story

Millie-Christine buy land

McKoy twins syncopated star - step right up

Jubilee: Ben Holmes (1846-1875)

Interview: Sam Patterson

Jubilee: Minnie Tate (1857-?)

Mirror of slavery - mirror chicanery

Pre-face: Berryman-Brown

Freedsong: dream gone

Freedsong: dream dawn

Freedsong: so long! (duet)

Freedsong: dream long

Freedsong: of 1850

Freedsong: dream wronged

Freedsong: dream of my son

Freedsong: dream strong

Freedsong: of 1876

Freedsong: dream song

Jubilee: George White (1838-1895)

Interview: John William "Blind" Boone

Jubilee: Maggie Porter (1853-1942)

Apparition in C

Roots of Boone

Apparition in Eb

Blind Boone's blessings

Apparition in F

Blind Boone's vision

Apparition in F#

Blind Boone's escape

Apparition in G

Blind Boone's rage

Apparition in Bb

Blind Boone's pianola blues

Apparition in C

Jubilee: Greene Evans (1848-1914)

Interview: Carmen LeDieux

Jubilee: Ella Sheppard (1851-1914)

Bert Williams-George Walker paradox - The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide

All coons look alike to me 1

Coon songs must go!-Coon songs go on (1)

All coons look alike to me! 2

Coon songs must go!-Coon songs go on (2)

All coons look alike to me! 3

Coon songs must go!-Coon songs go on (3)

Dunbar-Booker double shovel table 2-3-table 2-5

Jubilee: Thomas Rutling (1854?-1915)

Interview: Lottie Joplin, Part 1

Jubilee: Jennie Jackson (1852-1910)

WPA interview: E. Shoe

My name is Sissieretta Jones

WPA interview: E. Shoe

Sissieretta Jones, Carnegie Hall, 1902: O patria mia

WPA interview: E. Shoe

Sissieretta Jones: ad libitum

WPA interview: E. Shoe

Sissieretta Jones & the Black Patti Troubadours: Forte-Grazioso

WPA interview: E. Shoe

Jubilee Indigo

Interview: Lottie Joplin, Part 2

Berlin v. Joplin: Alexander's real slow drag

Jubilee Mission

Alabaster hands

Forever free

Hagar in the wilderness

Hiawatha

The death of Cleopatra

Indian combat

Minnehaha

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

Edmonia Lewis: provenance

We've sung each free day like it's salvation

Last letter home

Appendix

Presenting: The Dunbar-Booker Double Shovel

Presenting: The Bert Williams/George Walker Paradox

Step Right Up! Henry "Box" Brown Facing/Evading Slave Capture Dream on ... Duet

Notes on Jubilee and Syncopated Sonnets

The Trotter Interviews

Olio timeline.