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Songs of slavery and emancipation / Mat Callahan ; introductIon by Robin D.G. Kelley ; afterword by Kali Akuno.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callahan, Mathew, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spirituals (Songs)--United States--History and criticism.
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Slavery--United States--Songs and music--History and criticism.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Songs and music--History and criticism.
- Enslaved persons.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Callahan, Mathew, 1951- Songs of slavery and emancipation
- ISBN:
- 9781496840202
- 1496840208
- 9781496840196
- 1496840194
- 9781496840226
- 1496840224
- 9781496840219
- 1496840216
- Publisher Number:
- 99991070851
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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