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

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

136 songs of African-American slaves, collected and compiled a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, are presented here complete with their musical not

Authoritative study traces the African influences and lyric significance of such songs as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and John Henry, and gives words and music for