Roaring River
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Solomon Northup
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Roaring River" is an American reel in 2/4 time and G Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> It was composed by Solomon Northup, an African-American fiddler and carpenter originally<br> from Saratoga, New York. Northup was tricked into going to Baltimore to play<br> for a circus but was captured and sold into slavery. He had a variety of masters<br> and endured various conditions and treatment/mistreatment, including time<br> on several Louisiana plantations. "Roaring River" is transcribed and appears in<br> Northup's book Twelve Years a Slave (1853). He was, for a time, responsible for<br> timber cutting and extraction on a river; perhaps his "Roaring River" was inspired<br> this experience.<br>
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