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   Feb 5, 2009 · The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist. Deirdre O'Connell. Harry N. Abrams, Feb 5, 2009 - History - 272 pages. The true story of a black musical savant in the era of slavery. Born into slavery in Georgia, Tom Wiggins died an international celebrity in New York in 1908. His life was one of the most bizarre and moving episodes in American history.

   • Author: Deirdre O'Connell
   • Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2009

   • Edition: illustrated
   • Title: The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist

2. www.nytimes.com › 2021/03/03 › artsHe Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom

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   Mar 3, 2021 · By Anthony Tommasini. March 3, 2021. Charity Wiggins, a slave on a Georgia plantation, was 48 in May 1849, when she gave birth to a baby boy. The child, whom she named Thomas, was born blind, and ...

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3. www.leshp.org › blog › the-story-of-thomas-blind-tomThe story of Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins, former slave and ...

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   Thomas Greene Wiggins (1849-1908) was a former slave and indentured servant who began playing piano by the age of four and became one of the most celebrated musicians of the Civil War era. Thomas was born autistic and without sight on May 25, 1849 to Mungo and Charity Wiggins, two Georgia plantation slaves owned by Wiley Edward Jones.

4. www.nytimes.com › 2000/03/05 › artsThe Legacy of a Prodigy Lost in Mystery - The New York Times

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   Mar 5, 2000 · Tom was born blind, the son of slaves, in May 1849, and before he was 2 he was purchased along with his parents, Charity and Mingo Wiggins, by James Neil Bethune, a prominent Georgia lawyer and ...

5. books.google.com › books › aboutBlind Tom, the Black Pianist-composer (1849-1908) - Google Books

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   Blind Tom was the stage name of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind black pianist born into slavery in 1849. Noted by many musical authorities to be a musician of amazing skill, expressive playing, and incredible memory, he was nonetheless considered by his "admirers" still nearer to "animals" than other human beings, and was exploited by a series of whites after the Civil War for their own ...

6. www.researchgate.net › publication › 335312380_The(PDF) The Creative Recuperation of “Blind Tom” Wiggins in ...

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   As with the book ’ s. cover, Jess ... Allen focalize s Charity Wiggins’s rumina tions on her attempts to wrest. control over her son’s fate from her forme r slave owners, the Bethunes, and a re-

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   • George Kendall Warren/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Charity Wiggins, a slave on a Georgia plantation, was 48 in May 1849, when she gave birth to a baby boy. The child, whom she named Thomas, was born blind, and Charity feared that their owner would deem him a useless burden — with potentially dire consequences.

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   Who was Blind Tom Wiggins?

   • Blind Tom Wiggins: The African-American Piano Prodigy By Geri Walton| September 13, 2019| 0 Blind Tom, as he was called, was an African American musical piano prodigy born on 24 May 1849 on a plantation owed by Wiley Edward Jones in Harris County, Georgia, to Charity and Domingo “Mingo” Wiggins.

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   Why did charity buy the Wiggins slaves?

   • Charity made a bold plea to Gen. James Neil Bethune, a fiercely pro-slavery lawyer and newspaper editor in Columbus, Ga., to keep her family together; probably out of pity, he agreed and bought them. He could not have imagined that acquiring the Wiggins slaves would make him a fortune.

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   Did Thomas Wiggins play a piano?

   • The life and work of Thomas Wiggins, who toured as “Blind Tom,” has been given more attention in recent years. Born into slavery, Thomas Wiggins, who performed as “Blind Tom,” became a touring phenomenon, playing his own compositions and improvising on the piano. George Kendall Warren/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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   Why did Eliza Wiggins remarry?

   • Eliza then arranged for Blind Tom to appear on a popular vaudeville circuit, and throughout 1903 he performed until his health deteriorated and he suffered a stroke around 1904, which ended his performances altogether. Eliza had remarried and when her husband died, she relocated with Wiggins to Hoboken, New Jersey.

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   Sep 13, 2019 · Blind Tom, as he was called, was an African American musical piano prodigy born on 24 May 1849 on a plantation owed by Wiley Edward Jones in Harris County, Georgia, to Charity and Domingo “Mingo” Wiggins. From birth Thomas Wiggins was blind* and in 1850, when he was three, he was sold with his enslaved parents to a Georgia lawyer named ...