References -
1"My Southern Home: or, The South and its People", William Wells Brown, MD, Boston, AG Brown Publishers 1880, p. 122-123.
1 Wittke, Tambo and Bones, 58; broadsheet for a performance at the Bowery, Thursday evening, March 18, 1841 9collections of the American Anti-quarian Society, Worchester, Mass.)
2America's Instrument, The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century, Phillip F. Gura & James F. Bollman, The University of North Carolina Press, Chappel Hill and London.
2b New York Clipper, 13, April, 1878. On Sweeny see Authu Woodward, "Joel Sweeny and the First Banjo", Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly 7, No. 3 (1849), p7-11. and also a letter from the banjo maker Fred Mather in Gatcombs's Banjo and Guitar Gazette (2, no 2 [Novemeber-December 1888]) in which he recalls a meeting with Sweeny in 1850. Mather notes that because Sweeny "only played in what is now technically called 'banjo style' (i.e. which thumb and the first finger) .. he passed out of the profession as the banjo improved in compass"
Photos:
Political Cartoon "South" (represented as young African American boy carrying a banjo and a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation) 1862-63. Harvard Art Museum, Used With Permission.
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