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Blind Tom, Slave Turned Civil War-Era Pop Star
January 4, 2015
Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins (May 25, 1849 – June 14, 1908) was an African- American musical prodigy on the piano. He had numerous original compositions … Blind Tom – an African- American Musical Prodigy Several years ago I encountered the story of Thomas Greene Wiggins in the pages of Oliver Sacks’ wonderful study of unusual