Slave Songs of the United States

Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential,[1][2] collection of spirituals to be published. The collectors of the songs were Northern abolitionists William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles Pickard Ware.[3] It is a "milestone not just in African American music but in modern folk history".[4][5][6][7] It is also the first published collection of African-American music of any kind.[8]

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  1. Darden, pg. 71
  2. Southern, pg. 152
  3. Crawford, pg. 416
  4. Darden, pgs. 99-100
  5. Maultsby, Portia K.; Mellonee V. Burnin and Susan Oehler. "Overview". The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. pp. 572–591.
  6. Ramsey, Jr., Guthrie P. (Spring 1996). "Cosmopolitan or Provincial?: Ideology in Early Black Music Historiography, 1867-1940". Black Music Research Journal (Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1) 16 (1): 11–42. doi:10.2307/779375. JSTOR 779375.
  7. Snell and Kelley, pg. 22
  8. Chase, pg. 215

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