Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry

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Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry

Lauri Ramey

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Lauri RameyPublished February 5, 2008cover on file

This book restores the slaves? songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination.

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Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	224
Format	Hardcover
Search language	english
ISBN_10	1-403-97569-8 primary
ISBN_13	978-1-403-97569-0 primary

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