Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America
Reading edition
Two Hundred and Fifty Tunes and Texts With an Introduction and Notes
Collected and Edited by GEORGE PULLEN JACKSON
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK
iv
Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.
Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London W. C. 2.
This Dover edition, first published in 1964, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published by J. J. Augustin, Publisher, New York City, in 1937.
The publisher is grateful to the University of Virginia Library for furnishing a copy of the book for purposes of reproduction.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-8268
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc. 180 Varick Street New York 14, N.Y.
v
TO THE MEMORY OF MY WIFE INEZ EMELINE WRIGHT JACKSON
vii