Before I'd Be a Slave

Title

Before I'd Be a Slave

Creator

Anonymous

Contributor

William E. (William Eleazar) Barton, 1861-1930 [compiler]

Is Part Of

Old Plantation Hymns: a collection of hitherto unpublished melodies of the slave and the freedman, with historical and descriptive notes

Publisher

Boston : Lamson, Wolffe

Date

1899

Is Referenced By

Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 238.

Identifier

piece040

Files

Citation

Anonymous, “Before I'd Be a Slave,” The Music in The Music of Black Americans, accessed August 9, 2026, https://musicinmoba.harvardmusiclib.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/86.