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Title
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Get off the track!: a song for Emancipation
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Caption
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This song was dedicated to Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, Dartmouth Class of 1816, "As a mark of esteem for his intrepidity in the cause of Human Rights." Rodgers was the editor of an abolitionist newspaper, Herald of Freedom in Concord, NH. He also served as a station-master on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves heading to Canada, and a delegate to the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. He is notable because he withdrew from the Convention when women delegates were not seated. Rogers was also a co-founder of the racially integrated, co-ed Noyes Academy in nearby Canaan, N.H. The academy was short-lived however, as in 1935, a mob of five hundred, including some from Hanover, used seventy oxen to pull the building from its foundation, and later burned it. Several prominent future African American leaders were among the students who attended Noyes: Alexander Crummell, Henry Highland Garnet, Julia Williams, and Thomas Paul, Jr. Dartmouth Class of 1841
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Creator
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Jesse Hutchinson, Daniel Decatur Emmett, and the Hutchinson Family
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Date Created
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1844
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Publisher
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Published by the Author
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Place of Publication
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Boston
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Bibliographic Citation
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Hutchinson, Jesse, Daniel Decatur Emmett, and the Hutchinson Family (Singers), Get off the track!: a song for Emancipation, Boston: Published by the Author, 1844. Sheet Music HF 21
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Case Number
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02
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Item Number
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06
