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The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Paperback)
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The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Paperback)
Series: American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series
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In the eyes of many white Americans, North and South, the Negro did
not have a culture until the Emancipation Proclamation. With few
exceptions, serious collecting of Negro folklore by whites did not
begin until the Civil War-and it was to be another four decades
before black Americans would begin to appreciate their own cultural
heritage. Few of the earlier writers realized that they had
observed and recorded not simply a manifestation of a particular
way of life but also a product peculiarly American and specifically
Negro, a synthesis of African and American styles and traditions.
The folksongs, speech, beliefs, customs, and tales of the American
Negro are discussed in this anthology, originally published in
1967, of thirty-five articles, letters, and reviews from
nineteenth-century periodicals. Published between 1838 and 1900 and
written by authors who range from ardent abolitionist to dedicated
slaveholder, these articles reflect the authors' knowledge of, and
attitudes toward, the Negro and his folklore. From the vast body of
material that appeared on this subject during the nineteenth
century, editor Bruce Jackson has culled fresh articles that are
basic folklore and represent a wide range of material and
attitudes. In addition to his introduction to the volume, Jackson
has prefaced each article with a commentary. He has also supplied a
supplemental bibliography on Negro folklore. If serious collecting
of Negro folklore had begun by the middle of the nineteenth
century, so had exploitation of its various aspects, particularly
Negro songs. By 1850 minstrelsy was a big business. Although
Jackson has considered minstrelsy outside the scope of this
collection, he has included several discussions of it to suggest
some aspects of its peculiar relation to the traditional. The
articles in the anthology-some by such well-known figures as Joel
Chandler Harris, George Washington Cable, Thomas Wentworth
Higginson, John Mason Brown, and Antonin Dvorak-make fascinating
reading for an observer of the American scene. This additional
insight into the habits of thought and behavior of a culture in
transition-folklore recorded in its own context-cannot but afford
the thinking reader further understanding of the turbulent race
problems of later times and today.
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