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Recorded for the LoC (Library of Congress) by the Lomax brothers in 1933 and performed by convicts James "Iron Head" Baker and others incarcerated in a Texas State Pen. at Sugarland.

I have no proof this is a slave song, but --->
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work songs in hard labour camps of the south at this time tended towards the songs of the enslaved.

The constitution allows slavery as a punishment for crime. A disproportionate number of convicts are Black. Did slavery end?

This is why they sang songs of enslavement.
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