William Wells Brown's Songbook

The Anti-Slavery Harp; A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings, Compiled by William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848)




Frontispiece




Illustration for first song

CONTENTS

  • PREFACE. . . . Page 3
  • Am I not a Man and Brother? A. C. L., . . . 5
  • O, Pity the Slave Mother. Words from Liberator, . . . . . 6
  • The Blind Slave Boy. Mrs. Bailey, . . . . . 7
  • Ye Sons of Freemen. Mrs. J. G. Carter, . . . . . 8
  • Freedom's Star. Harris, . . . . . 9
  • Liberty Ball. Clarke, . . . . . 10
  • Emancipation Hymn. . . . . . 10
  • Over the Mountain. J. Hutchinson, Jr., . . . . . 11
  • Jubilee Song. . . . . . 12
  • Spririt of Freedom, Wake. . . . . . 13
  • Slave's Lamentation. Parody Tucker, . . . . . 13
  • Flight of the Bondman. Smith, . . . . . 14
  • Sweets of Liberty. . . . . . 15
  • Ye Spirits of the Free. . . . . . 16
  • Colonization Song. A Slaveholder, . . . . . 17
  • I am an Abolitionist. Garrison, . . . . . 18
  • The Bereaved Mother. J. Hutchinson, . . . . . 19
  • The Chase. Douglass' North Star, . . . . . 20
  • Fling out the Anti-Slavery Flag. . . . . . 22
  • The Yankee Girl. Whittier, . . . . . 22
  • Jefferson's Daughter. . . . . . 23
  • The Auction. . . . . . 24
  • Get off the Track. J. Hutchinson, Jr., . . . . . 25
  • Be Free, O Man, be Free. M. H. Maxwell, . . . . . 27
  • Fugitive Slave to the Christian. E. Wright, Jr., . . . . . 27
  • Rescue the Slave. Latimer Journal, . . . . . 28
  • Slave-holder to the North Star. Peirpont, . . . . . 29
  • The Coffle Gang. A Slave, . . . . . 30
  • Zaza, the Female Slave. Miss Ball, . . . . . 30
  • Ye Heralds of Freedom. . . . . . 31
  • We're Coming. . . . . . 32
  • On to Victory. . . . . . 33
  • The Man for Me. Parody Tucker, . . . . . 33
  • The Bondman. Words from Liberator, . . . . . 34
  • Right On. A Christian, . . . . . 35
  • Fugitive's Triumph. . . . . . 36
  • A Song for Freedom. . . . . . 37
  • Freedom's Banner. R. C. Wateston, . . . . . 38
  • Your Brother is a Slave. D. H. Jaques, . . . . . 39
  • Come Join the Abolitionists. . . . . . 40
  • Good Time Coming. J. Hutchinson, Jr., . . . . . 41
  • The Bigot Fire. John Ramsdale, . . . . . 42
  • Oft in the Chilly Night. Pierpont, . . . . . 43
  • Are ye Truly Free? J. R. Lowell, . . . . . 44
  • Emancipation Song. Bangor Gazette, . . . . . 45
  • What mean ye? . . . . . 46
  • Light of Truth. Oliver Johnson, . . . . . 46
  • Flying Slave. Bangor Gazette, . . . . . 47
  • INDEX. . . . . 48


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