Candjo / photograph of a vintage 1885 engraving by Edward Winsor Kemble (1861-1933)  / from &am

Candjo / photograph of a vintage 1885 engraving by Edward Winsor Kemble (1861-1933)  / from “Creole Slave Songs” by George W. Cable (1844-1925)  / A “candjo” is a Creole born Chief - “The ‘Criole Candjo’ … is sort of a [black] Creole dandy who charms and cajoles women by his dancing- what the French would call 'un beau valseur’” (from Henry Edward Krehbiel’s 1914 Afro-American folksongs : a study in racial and national music)

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