Negro Folk-Songs

by Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and Natalie Curtis Burlin

This collection of Negro folk songs represents a faithful effort to place on paper a precise record of old traditional plantation songs, exactly as they were sung by black students at Virginia's Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Dedicated to the education of former slaves, this nineteenth-century establishment was home to some 900 students from all parts of the United States. The songs were compiled by musicologist Natalie Curtis-Burlin,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486418804
• ISBN13: 9780486418803
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 11.2"