Interesting History of 'My Old Kentucky Home

The Kentucky state song has been many things since it was first written by Stephen Foster in 1852. It started out as a minstrel song, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” about the lament of a slave sold from his Kentucky plantation to a slave owner down south “where the sugar canes grow.”

History Overview — My Old Kentucky Home

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History - The Stephen Foster Story

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10 Facts you didn't know about My Old Kentucky Home — My Old Kentucky Home

10 Facts you didn't know about My Old Kentucky Home — My Old Kentucky Home

History of 'My Old Kentucky Home' examines how Black performers had to act out caricatures of plantation life — Andscape

10 Facts you didn't know about My Old Kentucky Home — My Old Kentucky Home