Slave Songs of the United States
New York
A. Simpson & Co., 1867.
John Malveaux of
writes:
SLAVE SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES was the first published collection of
African American slave songs. This year, 2017, is 150 years since the
collection was published in 1867. The 136 songs, mostly Christian,
illuminates the lives, fears, hopes and beliefs of human beings
classified as property without human rights.
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