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Songs of Slavery and Emancipation /
"This project presents recently discovered songs composed by enslaved people and explicitly calling for resistance to slavery. Some originate as early as 1800 and others as late as the outbreak of the Civil War. The project also includes long-lost songs of the abolitionist movement, some of whi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley
- Chapter 1. Finding the songs
- Chapter 2. History, geography, language, and music
- Chapter 3. Slave songs: Sources and documentation
- Chapter 4. Abolitionist songs: Sources and documentation
- Afterword: The contemporary relevance of songs of slavery and emancipation by Kali Akuno
- The dirge of St. Malo
- Rebeldia na Bandabou
- Uncle Gabriel, the Negro general
- Hymn of freedom
- The Negro's complaint
- Recognition march of the independance of Hayti
- The African hymn
- Nat Turner
- We'll soon be free/My father, how long?
- March on
- Children, we all shall be free
- The enlisted soldiers, or the Negro battle hymn
- Old massa, he come dancin' out
- The year of Jubalo, year of Jubilo, and kingdom coming
- Agonizing, cruel slavery days
- We're coming! We're coming!
- A song for freedom
- Flight of the bondman
- Right on
- The Underground Railroad
- To the white people of America
- Song of the aliened American
- t The voice of six hundred thousand nominally free
- The band of thieves
- The true spirit
- Come join the abolitionists
- Woman's rights
- Liberty
- What mean ye?
- Stole and sold from Africa
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: "Negro slave revolts in the United States, 1526-1860" (1939) by Herbert Aptheker
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.