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1 print: wood engraving; image 10 x 12 cm. (4 x 4.75 in) Aboard a steamer on the Mississippi River, a black deck-hand and a fiddler hold their own "Virginia hoe-down." The engraving accompanies T.B. Thorpe's "Remembrances of the Mississippi," and corresponds with a passage in which he describes the festive, light-hearted, and "happy" nature of "the negroes of the Mississippi." "With professional boat-men," Thorpe wrote," they are always favorites, and at night, when the 'old ark' is tied up, their acme of human felicity is a game of 'old sledge,' enlivened by a fiddle. On such ocassions the master of the instrument will touch off the 'Arkansas traveler,' and then gradually sliding into a 'Virginia hoe-down,' he will be accompanied by a genuine darkie keeping time, on the light and fantastic heel-and-toe tap." (p. 37) As the deck-hand dances and the fiddler plays, two boatmen play cards and a third looks on. Dallas del. Illustration in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 12, no. 67 (December 1855), p. 38. African American men Caricatures & cartoons African American dance Steamboats Mississippi River 62992.O Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 12 n 67 December 1855 p 38 https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2868 New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855 aacr gihc ppl 030409 20230712142922.0 142301 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.6 using a version of MARC21slim2MODS3-6.xsl (Revision 1.116 2016/3/15) modified by the Library Company of Philadelphia (modified 2023-10-02)