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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Chapter 9: negro Spirituals. (search)
. many thousand go. No more peck oa corn for me, No more, no more,-- No more peck oa corn for me, Many tousand go. No more driver's lash for me, ( Twice.) No more, &c. No more pint oa salt for me, (Twice.) No more, &c. No more hundred lash for me, (Twice.) No more, &c. No more mistress' call for me, No more, no more,-- No more mistress' call for me, Many tousand go. Even of this last composition, however, we have only the approximate date and know nothing of the mode of composition. Allan Ramsay says of the Scotch songs, that, no matter who made them, they were soon attributed to the minister of the parish whence they sprang. And I always wondered, about these, whether they had always a conscious and definite origin in some leading mind, or whether they grew by gradual accretion, in an almost unconscious way. On this point I could get no information, though I asked many questions, until at last, one day when I was being rowed across from Beaufort to Ladies' Island, I found myse