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Old Plantation Hymns: a collection of hitherto unpublished melodies of the slave and the freedman, with historical and descriptive notes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