Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect...
Henderson, Elliot Blaine
Excerpt from Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect PoemsWhat is true of the melodies of the negro as developed in the simple existence on the plantation is also true of that other form of singing, verse-making. Among the negroes there have sprung up a number of exponents of the wisdom, wit and humor of the race. They have caught the spirit of others - the humble philosophers of their kind - and they have employed the dialec...
