Sam Lucas

Timeline of works

  • 1875
    Carve Dat Possum. Original Song & Chorus.
    Place & Publisher John F. Perry & Co., 538 Washn. St. Boston
    Subjects:Minstrel shows, Eating & drinking, Caricatures, Oppossums, Dialects, Hunting, Ethnic stereotypes
  • 1875
    De Day I Was Sot Free! Sam Lucas' Great Songs.
    Place & Publisher White, Smith & Company Boston
    Subjects:Plantations, Ethnic stereotypes, Freed persons, Enslaved persons, Cotton plantations, Storytelling, Freedmen, Minstrel shows, Slavery, Free African Americans, Portraits, Emancipation Proclamation, Caricatures
  • 1877
    Grandfather's Old Arm Chair.
    Place & Publisher White, Smith & Co. Boston
    Subjects:Families, Children, Nostalgia, Time, Death
  • 1877
    Grandfather's Old Arm Chair.
    Place & Publisher White, Smith & Company, 516 Washington St. Boston
    Subjects:Furniture, Clocks & watches, Symbols, Nostalgia, Death
  • 1879
    Put on the Long White Robe.
    Place & Publisher White, Smith & Company, 516 Washington Street Boston
    Subjects:Plantations, Happiness, Aged persons, Symbols--Religion, Churches, Couples, Death, Minstrel shows, Cemetaries, Caricatures
  • 1881
    Old Nicker Demus, "De Ruler Ob De Jews."
    Place & Publisher W.A. Evans & Bro., Publishers, 19 Park Place New York
    Subjects:Minstrel shows, Caricatures, Aged persons, Biblical references
  • 1881
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    Old Nicker Demus, "De Ruler Ob De Jews."
    Place & Publisher J.M. Russell, 59 Bromfield St. Boston
    Subjects:Minstrel shows, Caricatures, Aged persons, Biblical references
  • 1883
    Companion Song to Golden Slippers. White Kid Slippers.
    Place & Publisher n.p.
    Subjects:Minstrel shows, Clothing & dress, Recreation, Dialects, Dancing
  • 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:Pessimism, Ethnic stereotypes, Enslaved persons, Dialects, Biblical references, Minstrel shows, Slavery
  • 1892
    Thankful Every Time. A Comic Song.
    Place & Publisher White-Smith Music Pub. Co. Boston
    Subjects:Minstrel shows, Bankers, Anger, Caricatures, Clothing & dress, Couples, Mothers-in-law, Cross dressing, Fads, Fighting, Playing cards