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Title

The anti-slavery harp : a collection of songs / compiled by William W. Brown, a fugitive slave. Boston, B. Marsh, 1848.

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Publication

[Philadelphia, Pa. : Rhistoric Publications, 1969]

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Details

Additional Authors

Whiteman, Maxwell

Description

47 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

• Rhistoric publication ; no. 206
• Afro-American history series

Subjects

• Slavery > United States > Poetry
• Abolitionist movement > Songs and music > Texts
• Songsters
• Song texts
• Slavery > United States > Songs and music > Texts

Genre/Form

• Songsters.
• Song texts.

Note

• Reprint of the 1848 ed., with "William Wells Brown: pioneer anthologist, 1848; a bibliographical note, by Maxwell Whiteman" added.
• Without the music. Text with indications of tunes.

Contents

Am I not a man and brother [air: Bride’s farewell] –O, pity the slave mother [air: Araby’s daughter] -- The blind slave boy [air: Sweet Afton] -- Ye sons of freemen [air: Marseilles hymn] -- Freedom’s star [air: Silver moon] -- The liberty ball [air: Rosin the bow] -- Emancipation hymn of the West Indian Negroes -- Over the mountain -- Jubilee song [air: Away the bowl] -- Spirit of freemen, wake [air: America] -- The slave’s lamentation [air: Long, long ago] -- Flight of the bondman / by Elias Smith [air: Silver moon] -- The sweets of liberty [air: Is there a heart, &c.] -- Ye spirits of the free [air: My faith looks up to thee] -- Colonization song to the free colored people [air: Spider and the fly] -- I am an abolitionist [air: Auld lang syne] -- The bereaved mother [air: Kathleen O’More] -- The case [air: Sweet Afton] -- Fling out the anti-slavery flag [air: Auld lang syne] -- The Yankee girl -- Jefferson’s daughter -- The slave-auction : a fact -- Get off the track [air: Dan Tucker] -- Be free, O man, be free -- The fugitive slave to the Christian -- Rescue the slave! [air: The troubadour] -- The slave-holder’s address to the North Star -- Song of the Coffle Gang -- Zaza : the female slave -- Ye heralds of freedom -- We’re coming! We’re coming [air: Kinlock of Kinlock] -- On to victory [air: Scots wha hae] -- The man for me [air: The rose that all are praising] -- The bondman [air: Troubadour] -- Right on [air: Lenox] -- Fugitive’s triumph -- A song for freedom [air: Dandy Jim] -- Freedom’s banner [air: Freedom’s banner] -- Your brother is a slave -- Come join the abolitionists [air: When I can read my title clean] -- There’s a good time coming -- The bigot fire -- Oft in the chilly night -- Are ye truly free? [air: Maryn] -- Emancipation song [air: Crambambule] -- What mean ye? [air: Ortonville] -- Light of truth -- The flying slave [air: To Greece we give our shining blades].

Call Number

Sc 811.08-B (Brown, W. Anti-slavery harp)

LCCN

78077043 /M

OCLC

55841

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Title

The anti-slavery harp : a collection of songs / compiled by William W. Brown, a fugitive slave. Boston, B. Marsh, 1848.

Imprint

[Philadelphia, Pa. : Rhistoric Publications, 1969]

Series

Rhistoric publication ; no. 206

Afro-American history series

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Added Author

Whiteman, Maxwell, writer of added commentary.

Research Call Number

Sc 811.08-B (Brown, W. Anti-slavery harp)

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