Talk:Run, Nigger, Run

A fact from Run, Nigger, Run appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 March 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the song "Run, Nigger, Run", used in the film 12 Years a Slave as a taunt, was originally used to encourage slaves to escape?

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Copyright

In 3 years the copyright on the song in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGNvo8WTrA will definitely expire. So 2022 it can be uploaded here. --User123o987name (talk) 11:09, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to song

I would like to suggest that Gary Clark, Jr.'s "This Land" (2019), the chorus of which is "Nigger Run, Nigger Run/Go Back Where You Come From/This Land Is Mine", be included as a contemporary reference. It's on his album of the same name (2019) and is featured at this link: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/gary-clark-jr-this-land-racism-america-trump-777000/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.34.4.212 (talk) 03:44, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

White

There is a discrepancy about citacion of Charlie White. This song is not in Serenaders' Song Book and the reference is about another book "American negro folk-songs" by Newman Ivey White--188.153.210.236 (talk) 11:04, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IP, a bit late but... although the cover says White's Serenader's Song Book, the pagination matches up to White's New Illustrated Melodeon, an earlier collection. Newman Ivey White explicitly mentions finding the song in White's Serenader's Song Book; the names are just coincidences. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For posterity, this version does include the song as part of the Serenaders' Song Book. Still haven't found a copy of the 1851 printing. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:31, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]