Robeson Illustrations:
Show Boat & Emporer Jones

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Show Boat

"Old Man River."
"Darkies all work on the Mississippi.... Lift that bale!"

"Body all aching and racked with pain...

"You get a little drunk [show a little grit] and you land in jail."

Robeson "Old Man River" smiles--Show Boat and Warsaw 1949.

Emporer Jones

"Water Boy."

"Ain't no chain gangs and no Jim Crow..."; "There's little stealin' like you does and big stealin' like I does."

Jeff, the "haint." Atavism.