Way Up North in Dixie A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem

"Although Howard and Judith sacks offer an intriguing and textured portrait of the life of a black family in the 19th-century North, they have a more ambitious agenda. Arguing that those who have searched for black influences on minstrelsy have exclusively and mistakenly focused on the South, the authors seek to demonstrate the closely intertwined traditions of black and white music above the Mason-Dixon line....The authors provide fresh and striking evidence of one specific context from which mistrelsy emerged."Sacks, Howard L. is the author of 'Way Up North in Dixie A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem', published 2003 under ISBN 9780252071607 and ISBN 0252071603.