Preface -- Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley -- Chapter 1. Finding the songs -- Chapter 2. History, geography, language, and music -- Chapter 3. Slave songs: Sources and documentation -- Chapter 4. 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: "Negro slave revolts in the United States, 1526-1860" (1939) by Herbert Aptheker -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
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