 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".After the American Civil War, the song was documented more extensively.Joel Chandler Harris included a version of it in his "Uncle Remus and His Friends" (1892), and in 1915, E. C. Perrow included a version with his article "Songs and Rhymes from the South" in "The Journal of American Folklore".