Broadside, 8 x 6 inches. Lyrics printed within an ornamental border, ornamental rule beneath the title, the publisher's line separated from the text by a thin rule. Very good. First issued by another publisher in 1853 and reprinted several times into the 1870s. "My massa and my missus dey both am gone away / Dey gone to de Sulphur Springs de summer months to stay; / An' while dey'r off togedder on dis little kind ob spree, / I'll go down to Charleston de pretty gals to see." Wolf American Song Sheets 1021f. OCLC locates six copies of this edition (Delaware, New York Historical Soc., College of Charleston, South Carolina, Texas-Ransom, Library of Virginia).

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Title

I'M OFF FOR CHARLESTON [caption title followed by five verses of lyrics to the song, in African-American dialect]

Publisher

T.M. Scroggy, [Philadelphia]

Publication Date

1855

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