A document from the Ransom Center's minstrel collection "The Program" (Wood's Minstrel Hall) features many short minstrel plays created for entertainment purposes, including "Happy Uncle Tom » and “Dixie's Land”. ". It is not difficult to see that both of these coins contain symbols associated with African Americans by whites. Obviously, the creators of these shows incorporated their ideas about racial identities into these shows, which then conveyed the messages to the audience. There are also numerous sheet music and sheet music works in the Ransom Center's minstrel collection, including the Boston Minstrel's "Git along home my yaler gall." The composer wrote this piece in a light major key, with a faster 6/8 tempo, in an attempt to portray the image of a happy African American. In the text portion of this article, many words have been intentionally misspelled to exaggerate the alleged accents and lack of education of African Americans. All of this speaks to the way white composers of the period tended to incorporate common perceptions of the African American from a white person's perspective into their compositions. Music is essentially a representation of