Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all wer
This early work by Miles Mark Fisher is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the importance and meaning of slave songs in America. T
In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of S