![]() ![]() 'Ten Little Niggers' was also used as the title for a 1940s book of children's nursery rhymes. The version of the rhyme used in Christie's book does not end as happily as the version used on these lantern slides. It was used by Agatha Christie in her novel 'Ten Little Niggers' (1939) which was later re-titled 'And Then There Were None'. ![]() It was a standard of the blackface minstrel shows and became widely known in Europe. The rhyme was adapted in the late 1800s from '10 Little Injuns', written by Septimus Winner in 1868. Butcher & Sons, London, under the trade name Primus, as part 515 of the Junior Lecturers' Series A set of lantern slides. From in an incomplete set of seven lantern slides (originally would have been eight), telling the story of 'Ten Little Nigger Boys'. Five little nigger boys going in for law One got in chancery, and then there were four. ![]() It depicts two verses of the rhyme: Six little nigger boys playing with a hive A bumble-bee stung one, and then there were five. Lantern slide 'Six Little Nigger Boys Playing with a Hive', circa 1900s. Lantern Slide - Ten Little Nigger Boys, 'Six Little Nigger Boys Playing with a Hive', circa 1900sĪlternative Name(s) Children's Slide Magic Lantern Slide ![]()
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