xxv, 492 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-473) and index.
Contents
Origins of spirituals -- Musical characteristics and performance practice -- The Maafa and the history of slavery -- Antebellum slave narratives and interviews -- Witness : slave testimonies -- Christian religion and slavery -- Slave religion : the tertium quid -- The big house and the master -- Life in the slave quarter -- The most vulnerable -- Work -- Rituals in slave life -- Sold down the river -- Slave control -- Slave rebellion -- Escape -- Spiritual after the Civil War -- Themes of spirituals -- Slavery and spirituals : a synopsis.