[189] Beasley, Negro Trail Blazers, pp. 95-7.

[190] Cf. Annual Reports National Association of Colored Women; Atlanta University Publications, No. 14.

[191] Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, Chapter No. 14.

[192] W. F. Allen and others, Slave Songs of the United States, New York, 1867.

[193] G. D. Pike, The Jubilee Singers, New York, 1873.

[194] James Weldon Johnson, Book of American Negro Poetry, New York, 1922.

[195] H. E. Krehbiel, Afro-American Folksongs, New York, 1914; cf. also John W. Work, Folksong of the American Negro, Nashville, Tenn., 1915.

[196] Natalie Curtis-Burlin, Negro Folksongs, 4 books, 1918-19; Songs and Tales from the Dark Continent, 1920.

[197] Benjamin Brawley, Negro in Literature and Art.

[198] Alice Dunbar-Nelson in Journal of Negro History, Vol. 2, p. 55.