Perrow included a version with his article 'Songs and Rhymes from the South' in The Journal of American Folklore. Joel Chandler Harris included a version of it in his Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892), and in 1915, E. Īfter the American Civil War, the song was documented more extensively. According to Newman Ivey White, the earliest written documentation of 'Run, Nigger, Run' dates to 1851, when a version was included in blackface minstrel Charlie White's White's Serenaders' Song Book. Larry Birnbaum notes lyrical parallels in some versions to earlier songs, such as 'Whar You Cum From', first published by J. Wyeth describes it as one of the oldest of the plantation songs, songs sung by slaves working on Southern plantations. It is not certain when the song originated, although John A. One such song is 'Run, Nigger, Run', which was sung on plantations in much of the Southern United States. This social phenomenon led the slaves to create a variety of songs regarding the patrols and slaves' attempts to escape them. If caught, running from the slave patrols was considered better than attempting to explain oneself and facing the whip.

However, it remained common for slaves to slip away from the plantations to visit friends elsewhere. In the mid-nineteenth century, black slaves were not allowed off their masters' plantations without a pass, for fear that they would rise against their white owners such uprisings had occurred before, such as the one led by Nat Turner in 1831.

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