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_Spiritual Folk-Songs
of Early America_
Two Hundred and Fifty Tunes and Texts
With an Introduction and Notes
Collected and Edited
by
GEORGE PULLEN JACKSON
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
NEW YORK
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.
_TO THE MEMORY
OF MY WIFE
INEZ EMELINE WRIGHT JACKSON_