Songs of slavery and emancipation / Mat Callahan ; introductIon by Robin D.G. Kelley ; afterword by Kali Akuno.

"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 which we...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Main Author: Callahan, Mathew, 1951- (Author)
Other Authors: Kelley, Robin D. G.
Akuno, Kali
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Series:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Subjects:
Spirituals (Songs) > United States > History and criticism.
Slavery > United States > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Enslaved persons > United States > Songs and music > History and criticism.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
African Americans > Music.
Slavery > Songs and music.
Enslaved persons > Songs and music.
Spirituals (Songs)
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:x, 208 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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