Lantern Slide - Ten Little Nigger Boys; 'Nine Little Nigger Boys Sat Up Very Late'; circa 1900s; Alternative Name(s); Children's Slide; Magic Lantern Slide Lantern slide 'Nine Little Nigger Boys Sat Up Very Late'; circa 1900s. It depicts one verse from the rhyme: Nine little nigger boys sat up very late; One overslept himself; and then there were eight. From in an incomplete set of seven lantern slides (originally would have been eight); telling the story of 'Ten Little Nigger Boys'.