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    Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems
    Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems
    Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems
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    Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems

    By Elliott Blaine Henderson

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    Elliott Blaine Henderson was a slave plantation worker in Ohio in the late 19th century. This book is a collection of his poems that describe and give the feel of his daily life and his thoughts on the plantation.
    The book has an introduction by E. G. Burkham, Editor of the Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, who wrote the following, "He who correctly interprets the spirit of his race serves a good cause, and it is believed that Mr Henderson will be found to have succeeded in his undertaking to make his people better and more widely understood."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateJan 17, 2022
    ISBN4066338112071
    Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems

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      Plantation Echoes - Elliott Blaine Henderson

      Elliott Blaine Henderson

      Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4066338112071

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      WHEN THE MOON HANGS LOW.

      SEEMS DEY’S NO PLACE.

      GOOD BYE, HONEY—GOOD BYE.

      WHAT WE GWINE TO DO?

      KAZE I KNO’ I KAIN’T STOP.

      DAHKY, WHUT YO’ DUN?

      WHEN DE FIAH AM KINDLIN’ HOT.

      LAMENTATION.

      WHEN DE SUMMAH’S DUN CUM.

      THE COON’S SERENADE.

      BLISSFUL ANTICIPATIONS.

      PAWSON JOHNSON AT DINNER.

      GO ’WAY, MAH HONEY.

      BRER POSSUM DECLINES.

      I HAIN’T FOOLIN’ HONEY.

      SLEEP.

      A PROFUSE ENCOMIUM.

      PEEPIN’ TH’EW DE HUSK.

      AXIN’, COON? CUM OBEAH.

      HUSTLE.

      GO SLEEP.

      KAZE DE SUN AM SINKIN’.

      SOFT FALLS THE NIGHT.

      GIT ON BOARD, CHILLUN.

      UNCLE NED AN’ DE MOCKIN’ BIRD.

      PO’ LI’L’ RASTUS.

      SAMBO’S RAIN PHILOSOPHY.

      JES’ KEEP ER LOOKIN’ UP.

      WISHED I’D RODE MAH HOSS.

      EGGS! EGGS!! EGGS!!!

      IT AM DE POSSUM TIME.

      STICK TO YOUR RACE!

      MEMORIAL DAY.

      TRUSSY’S VISIT.

      IS YO’ LONESUM, HONEY?

      LARN TO HE’P YO’SE’F.

      COURTIN’ O’ DE PHONE.

      LONESUM VALLEY CHRISTMUS TREE.

      YES, WEES GOT ER FLAG.

      HI, MISTAH DAHKY.

      DEY’S ER COL’ WAVE BRESHIN’ NIGH.

      FORCE OF WORDS.

      I TOL’ YO’ SO.

      THE PASSING OF NIGHT.

      A TALE O’ WOE.

      LULLABY.

      THE ECSTASY OF UNCLE JOE.

      KEEP ER GOIN’.

      CLIMIN’ UP DE HILL.

      SISTAH RUFFLE.

      THE GALLANT BLACKS OF SAN JUAN HILL.

      INTRODUCTION

      Table of Contents

      The music of the American negro, the fresh and spontaneous expression of a good and care-free heart, has long been one of the most pleasing features of American life. It is human nature in its first vocal garb—original and unique, often humorous and always true to the sentiment of the singer. If there ever was an illustration of the close relationship between language and thought, it is this.

      What is true of the melodies of the negro as developed in the simple existence on the plantation is also true of that other form of singing, verse-making. Among the negroes there have sprung up a number of exponents of the wisdom, wit and humor of the race. They have caught the spirit of others—the humble philosophers of their kind—and they have employed the dialect to reproduce the thought in all its quaintness and originality. One of the most notable of these exponents or interpreters is an Ohio negro, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, who has taken high rank among the poets of the day. Another is Elliott Blaine Henderson, also a son of Ohio, whose first volume of verse is herewith presented.

      In much that Mr. Henderson here presents, there is the rush of expression and the jingle of words that are so characteristic of the negro. There is also humor and there is sentiment, and always that other quality which makes verse in these days readable—good cheer.

      He who correctly interprets the spirit of his race serves a good cause, and it is believed that Mr. Henderson will be found to have succeeded in his undertaking to make his people better and more widely understood.

      E. G. Burkham,

      Editor of the Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio.

      WHEN THE MOON HANGS LOW.

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      A straying chicken

      Lost from home

      Bewildered, finds

      Itself a-roam.

      And innocently

      Stalks the ground,

      Not dreaming

      That a coon’s around.

      As evening’s shadows

      Gently fall,

      The chicken, lonesome,

      Gives a call.

      A coon steals out

      Soft in the night,

      To catch him

      For his appetite.

      The night is still!

      The moon is low!

      Not e’en a zephyr

      Seems to blow.

      The coon with sack

      Clutched in his hand,

      Moves silently

      Across the land.

      The chicken gives

      Another squawk!

      The coon has

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