Run, Nigger, Run
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"Run, Nigger, Run" is a folk song first documented in 1851. It is known from numerous versions. Responding to the rise of slave patrols in the slave-owning southern United States, the song is about an
Lyrics from the White's Serenaders' Song Book version (1851). Note the reference to "Mr. Bones", one of the standard minstrel roles.
Use of nigger in the arts
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This article treats the usage of the word nigger in reference to African Americans and others of African or mixed African and other ethnic origin in the art of Western culture and the English language
Run, Nigger, Run
…the escape is ultimately successful. These conventions carried over, through the slave narrative genre, into written African-American literature. Use of nigger in the arts…
1885 illustration from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, captioned "Misto Bradish's nigger"
"How the Leopard Got His Spots"
Negro Kisses (Neekerin Suukkoja in Finnish)