Resources
- The Songs that Sang of Black America Before 1863
- Slave Songs of the United States
- 'I Saw the Book Talk': Slave Readings of the First Great Awakening
References
Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, eds. (1867) 1965. Slave Songs of the United States. Reprint, New York: Oak Publications.
Bergson, Henri, R. Ashley Audra and Cloudesley Brereton, trs. 1954. The Two Sources of Morality and Religion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co.
Cone, James H. 2011. The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
Fromm, Erich. 1951. The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths. New York: Grove Press.
Gates, Jr., Henry Louis. 2021. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. New York: Penguin Press.
Gillum, Ruth. 1943. "The Negro Folksong in the American Culture." The Journal of Negro Education 12, no. 2 (Spring): 173-180.
Herskovits, Melville J. 1941. The Myth of the Negro Past. New York: Harper Brothers.
Krueger, E.T. 1932. "Negro Religious Expression" The American Journal of Sociology 38, no. 1 (July): 22-31.
Lovell, Jr., John. 1972. Black Song: The Forge and the Flame. The Story of How the Afro-American Spiritual was Hammered Out. New York: MacMillian.
McLaughlin, Wayman B. 1963. "Symbolism and Mysticism in the Spirituals." Phylon 24, no. 1: 69-77.
Raboteau, Albert J. 1978. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press.
Roberts, John. 2009. "African American Belief Narratives and the African Cultural Tradition." Research in African Literatures 40, no. 1 (Spring): 112-126.
Wallaschek, Richard. 1893. Primitive Music: An Inquiry into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs, Instruments, Dances, and Pantomimes of Savage Races. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Wood, Peter H. 1974. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.