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Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]
Encouragement to Escape Bondage and Enslavement
Important study of the haunting melodies and swinging rhythms of African-American songs and spirituals of the antebellum South. The songs often encouraged African Americans to escape their enslavement.
Fisher explores the connection between these songs, and their usage, in the passing of oral tradition and history from one individual to the next; from one generation to the next.
A Black American historian and educator, Firsher was pastor of the White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina from 1933 to 1965. Negro Slave Songs in the United States was awarded the American Historical Association prize for the best book of 1953.
Description: Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1953). 223pp. Extensive footnotes. Bibliography. Index. First edition. Publisher’s cloth and dust jacket. A Near Fine copy.
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