Zip Coon]]> Turkey in the Straw, Coony in de Hollar and Opossum Up a Gum Tree. ]]> Click here to see the score in the Library of Congress's digital collections]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 120.]]> Is There a Heart That Never Lov'd]]> The Music of Black Americans combines Braham's tune (Is there a heart that never lov'd) and Brown's text (The sweets of liberty) to demonstrate how familiar songs were sung with newly written texts at mid-eighteenth-century anti-slavery meetings in New England.]]> Click here to see the score in the Library of Congress digital collections

Click here to see William Wells Brown's anti-slavery alternative text in HathiTrust, from the University of Michigan's collections]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 127.]]> Follow the Drinkin' Gourd]]> Follow de drinkin' gou'd. Publications of the Texas Folklore Society no. 7.

]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 131.]]>