Ring, Ring de Banjo

Ring, Ring de Banjo is a

The song, written to mimic the dialect of Black people in the Southern United States, is about a newly-freed slave who wishes to come back to his master's plantation. As his old master is dying, the singer plays the banjo on his old master's deathbed until he dies.^[1] It is one of "minstrelsy's most explicit evocations of the potentially violent relationship in slavery between master and slave"^[2] and inspired a number of imitators, including the abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.^[3]

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