Did you know that " Blue Tail Fly " or " Jimmy Crack Corn " is a blackface minstrel song dating from the 1840s, and that on the surface, it is a black slave 's lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and may have killed him by deliberate negligence?
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