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Slave Songs of the United States

Slave Songs of the United States

Applewood Books

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Originally published in 1867, the book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by it.

Product Details
  • Product Type: Book, Trade Paperback
  • 168 pages
  • Published in 1996
  • Shipping Dimensions: 8.5 × 5.5 × 0.4 inches  (21.6 × 14.0 × 1.0 cm)
  • Shipping Weight: 0.5 lb (8.0 oz; 227 g)
  • SKU: SKU010001381
  • ISBN: 9781557094346

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About the Editor

Lucy McKim Garrison

Lucy McKim Garrison (1842 – 1877) was an American song collector and co-editor of Slave Songs of the United States, together with William Francis Allen and Charles Pickard Ware

About the Editor

William Francis Allen

William Francis Allen (1830 – 1889) was an American classical scholar and an editor of the first book of American slave songs, Slave Songs of the United States.

About the Editor

Charles Pickard Ware

Charles Pickard Ware (c. 1840–1921), was an American educator and music transcriber. An abolitionist, he served as a civilian administrator in the Union Army, where he was a labor superintendent of freedmen on plantations at Port Royal, South Carolina, during the American Civil War. This included Seaside Plantation. It is here that he transcribed many slave songs with tunes and lyrics, later published in Slave Songs of the United States, which he edited with William Francis Allen and Lucy McKim Garrison. It was the first published collection of American folk music.

About the Publisher

Applewood Books

Founded in Carlisle, Massachusetts in 1976 by Phil Zuckerman, Applewood Books specializes in publishing "books for the Cultural Traveler," high-quality, American-manufactured books that help tell the stories of America—its places, its people, and its history.

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Founded in Carlisle, Massachusetts in 1976 by Phil Zuckerman, Applewood Books specializes in publishing "books for the Cultural Traveler," high-quality, American-manufactured books that help tell the stories of America—its places, its people, and its history.

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