619157 Frontispiece for \'Eli Green\'s cake-walk\', by Dave Reed Jr. and Sadie Koninsky, c.1896 (litho) by American School, (19th century); New York Public Library, USA; (add.info.: Words by Dave Reed Jr. with music by Sadie Koninsky. The Cakewalk dance was developed from a "Prize Walk" done in the days of slavery, generally at get-togethers on plantations in the Southern United States. Alternative names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline-walk", and the "walk-around". ); American, out of copyright.