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[Sheet Music] Five Pieces of 19th Century Jim Crow / Minstrelsy Sheet Music. Including Civil War-era “Raw Recruits, or Abraham’s Daughters” (1862); “Mr. T. Rice as the Original Jim Crow” (New York: E. Riley, ca. 1830s), lithographed self-wrappers. 4to. [3pp.], with music and 44 verses of lyrics in black dialect; “The Old Piney Woods” (Toronto, 1866); “The Dark Sett/Celebrated Negro Quadrilles” (New York, ca. 1860s), lithographed sheet music; and “Christy’s Melodies/Jim Crow Polka” (Boston, ca. 1848).