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“My Old Kentucky Home” is another song written by Stephen Foster, (known as “The father of American music”. Many of his songs were ‘minstrel’ songs which would be sung by white singers who ‘blacked-up’ their faces, but unlike others of that genre written at the same time, Foster tried to use less offensive names for the slaves, hence his use of ‘darkies’ etc. If you listen carefully to his lyrics, you realise that in his own way he was trying to draw public attention to the deplorable way these slaves were treated, In this song for example he is pointing out that the ‘darkies’ were worked so hard that their life expectancy was only short.
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“My Old Kentucky Home” is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826-1864), probably composed in 1852. It was published as “My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night” in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York. The song was introduced by Christy’s Minstrels the same year.
Foster allegedly composed the song after visiting a relative’s home at Bardstown, Kentucky called Federal Hill, but scholars have discounted the allegation. Richard Jackson believes Foster took inspiration from Harriett Beecher Stowe’s 1851 bestseller Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and hoped to exploit its popularity. In Foster’s sketchbook, the song was titled “Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night” and each verse ended with the line “Den poor Uncle Tom, good night.” Jackson describes the song as “one of [Foster’s] most appealing nostalgia pieces”. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass thought the song stimulated “the sympathies for the slave, in which anti-slavery principles take root and flourish.”
The song described originally an everyday scene on a slave plantation and was a beloved song in minstrel shows.
“My Old Kentucky Home” became the official state song of Kentucky on March 19, 1928 by an act of the Kentucky legislature. In 1986, Japanese students visiting the Kentucky General Assembly sang the song as a gesture of respect, but Carl Hines, the only black member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, was quoted as saying that the lyrics “convey connotations of racial discrimination that are not acceptable”. Within days, Hines was sponsoring a bill to revise the lyrics, and, with the passage of House Resolution 159, the word “darkies” was changed to “people”.

In my opinion Mr Hines missed the point and replacing “darkies” with “people” loses the impact as it was the plight of the coloured people Foster was referring to, not the whites.

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