Songs of slavery and emancipation

Preface

Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley

Finding the songs

History, geography, language, and music

Slave songs: Sources and documentation

Abolitionist songs: Sources and documentation

Afterword: The contemporary relevance of songs of slavery and emancipation by Kali Akuno

The dirge of St. Malo

Rebeldia na Bandabou

Uncle Gabriel, the Negro general

Hymn of freedom

The Negro's complaint

Recognition march of the independance of Hayti

The African hymn

Nat Turner

We'll soon be free/My father, how long?

March on

Children, we all shall be free

The enlisted soldiers, or the Negro battle hymn Old massa, he come dancin' out

The year of Jubalo, year of Jubilo, and kingdom coming

Agonizing, cruel slavery days

We're coming! We're coming!

A song for freedom

Flight of the bondman

Right on

The Underground Railroad

To the white people of America

Song of the aliened American t The voice of six hundred thousand nominally free

The band of thieves

The true spirit

Come join the abolitionists

Woman's rights

Liberty

What mean ye?

Stole and sold from Africa

Appendix. "Negro slave revolts in the United States, 1526-1860" (1939) by Herbert Aptheker.