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| :: Title :: |
Story of a slave who asked the devil to take his master |
| :: Genre :: |
folk tale, interview, spoken, story |
| :: Performers & Instruments :: |
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| :: Setting :: |
Alan Lomax's apartment, 3rd Street |
| :: Location :: |
Greenwich Village, New York City (New York), New York (United States) |
| :: Language :: |
English |
| :: Culture :: |
Southern U.S., African American, Sea Islands, Georgia |
| :: Session :: |
Bessie Jones I 10/61
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| :: Date :: |
10/3/1961 |
| :: Reference Information :: |
T955.1, Track 11 (00:04:19) |
| :: Original Format :: |
Reel to Reel
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| :: Session Notes :: |
| 1 - The seventh of 21 recording sessions with Bessie Jones. [Source: Editor] |
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| :: Recording Notes :: |
| 0 - A slave tires of his master's bad treatment and prays to the devil to come and take him away. As a joke, his friends appear to him as the devil, who says he has come to take him. |
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| :: Collection :: |
Bessie Jones 1961-1962 |
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