[7] The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was founded in 1701 and the efforts to Christianize the Negro were carried on with a great deal of zeal and with some success.
[8] Journal of Negro History, Vol. I, 1916, p. 70.
[9] Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music, by Henry Edward Krehbiel. (New York and London, G. Schirmer), p. 37. From a letter of Lafcadio Hearne.
[10] Army Life in a Black Regiment, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boston, Fields, Osgood and Co., 1870.
[11] Krehbiel, Afro-American Folksongs, p. 16.
[12] Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, edited by The Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, Vol. 37, New York, 1910, No. 3—Social and Mental Traits of the Negro, by Howard W. Odum, Ph.D., p. 91.
[13] Krehbiel, Afro-American Folksongs.