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"Slave Songs of the United States" Leather Bound Song Book with Marbleized Cover - 1867 Edition -Authors - William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKin Garrison, Editors - Personally Inscribed by William F. Allen to His Father Rev. Jos. Allen D.D. - This was one of the first collection of slave songs to appear in print and was compiled by white northerners who live among the ex-slaves in the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia as teachers and missionaries.