Sam Lucas

Timeline of works

  • 1875
    Carve Dat Possum. Original Song & Chorus.
    Place & Publisher John F. Perry & Co., 538 Washn. St. Boston
    Subjects:Oppossums, African Americans, Caricatures, Hunting, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Dialects
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  • 1875
    De Day I Was Sot Free! Sam Lucas' Great Songs.
    Place & Publisher White, Smith & Company Boston
    Subjects:Portraits, African Americans, Caricatures, Storytelling, Slavery, Cotton plantations, Emancipation Proclamation, Freedmen, Ethnic stereotypes
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  • 1877
    Grandfather's Old Arm Chair.
    Place & Publisher White, Smith & Co. Boston
    Subjects:Families, Children, Nostalgia, Time, Death
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  • 1877
    Grandfather's Old Arm Chair.
    Place & Publisher White, Smith & Company, 516 Washington St. Boston
    Subjects:Furniture, Clocks & watches, Symbols, Nostalgia, Death
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  • 1879
    Put on the Long White Robe.
    Place & Publisher White, Smith & Company, 516 Washington Street Boston
    Subjects:African Americans, Caricatures, Couples, Plantations, Cemetaries, Churches, Aged persons, Symbols--Religion, Death, Happiness
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  • 1881
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    Old Nicker Demus, "De Ruler Ob De Jews."
    Place & Publisher J.M. Russell, 59 Bromfield St. Boston
    Subjects:African Americans, Caricatures, Aged persons, Biblical references
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  • 1881
    Old Nicker Demus, "De Ruler Ob De Jews."
    Place & Publisher W.A. Evans & Bro., Publishers, 19 Park Place New York
    Subjects:African Americans, Caricatures, Aged persons, Biblical references
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  • 1883
    Companion Song to Golden Slippers. White Kid Slippers.
    Place & Publisher n.p.
    Subjects:Dancing, Recreation, African Americans, Dialects, Clothing & dress
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  • 1884
    Sam Lucas' Great Sensational and Motto Songs. No. 6. Dar's a Lock on De Chicken Coop Door.
    Place & Publisher Chas. D. Blake & Co., 488 Washington St. Boston
    Subjects:African Americans, Dialects, Biblical references, Slavery, Pessimism, Ethnic stereotypes
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  • 1892
    Thankful Every Time. A Comic Song.
    Place & Publisher White-Smith Music Pub. Co. Boston
    Subjects:Playing cards, Couples, Anger, Fighting, African Americans, Caricatures, Mothers-in-law, Clothing & dress, Cross dressing, Fads, Bankers
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