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Joshua McCarter Simpson (ca. 1820 - April 20, 1877) was a store proprietor, herbalist, poet and lyricist in the United States. He lamented the enslavement of African Americans, called out the hypocrisy of white Christian abusers, and denounced the brutal treatment and discrimination African Americans received. His songs were published in 1854 as ''The Emancipation Car: Being an Original Composition of Anti-Slavery Ballads, Composed Exclusively for the Underground Railroad''. His work was well known and widely circulated during his lifetime. Alternative first (John) and last names (McCarty) have been noted.
He was fostered before being leased out as an orphan. He was indentured until age 21. He attended an Abolitionist school in Big Bottom, Ohio and Oberlin Collegiate Institute in
Joshua McCarter Simpson (ca. 1820 - April 20, 1877) was a store proprietor, herbalist, poet and lyricist in the United States. He lamented the enslavement of African Americans, called out the hypocrisy of white Christian abusers, and denounced the brutal treatment and discrimination African Americans received. His songs were published in 1854 as ''The Emancipation Car: Being an Original Composition of Anti-Slavery Ballads, Composed Exclusively for the Underground Railroad''. His work was well known and widely circulated during his lifetime. Alternative first (John) and last names (McCarty) have been noted.
He was fostered before being leased out as an orphan. He was indentured until age 21. He attended an Abolitionist school in Big Bottom, Ohio and Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Oberlin, Ohio
Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, 31 miles southwest of Cleveland. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students.
The town is the birthplace of the ...
. He wrote anti-slavery verses and set them to popular tunes.
He had a store and medical practice in Zanesville, Ohio. Vicki L. Eakler wrote a master's thesis on him in 1982 at Washington University in St. Louis.
The ''Zanesville Courier'' reported his death April 20, 1877 and ran an obituary for him the following day.
Songs
*"The Proclamation Day" to the tune of The Prisoner's Hope / Tramp! Tramp!! Tramp!!! words and music byGeorge Frederick Root
George Frederick Root (August 30, 1820August 6, 1895) was an American songwriter, who found particular fame during the American Civil War, with songs such as "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" and " The Battle Cry of Freedom". He is regarded as the first A ...
published by Root & Cady
Root & Cady was a Chicago-based music publishing firm, founded in 1858. It became the most successful music publisher of the American Civil War and published many of the most popular songs during that war.Cornelius, pg. 18 The firm's founders were ...
*"Let the Banner Proudly Wave" to "Nearer Our Happy Home"
*"The Fifteenth Amendment"
*"The Grand Jubilee", to the tune of " Annie of the Vale"
*"Away to Canada" to the tune of " Oh Susanna"
*"To the White People of America" to the tune " Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground" a minstrel song composed by New York songwriter Stephen Foster in 1852
*"A Brother's Farewell (A Scene at the Slave Pen)" to the tune of Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More
"Hard Times Come Again No More" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor song written by Stephen Foster. It was published in New York by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 as Foster's Melodies No. 28. Well-known and popular in its day, both in Ame ...
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*"No, Master, Never"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Printed_song_lyrics-_"A_Brother's_Farewell"_and_"No,_Master,_Never,"_1861-1865.jpg to " Pop Goes the Weasel"
*"Song of the Aliened American" to the tune of " My Country, 'Tis of Thee"
See also
*''The Aliened American
''The Aliened American'' was a newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the city's first black newspaper and is believed to have been the third newspaper for African Americans in the United States. Its first edition was published on April 9, 1853. Wil ...
'', a newspaper published in Cleveland, Ohio
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Joshua McCarter 1820s births 1877 deaths 19th-century American poets Abolitionists from Ohio African-American poets Poets from Ohio