THE STORY OF THE JUBILEE SINGERS: With Their Songs
by Marsh, J. B. T
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- Hardcover
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- Good condition in green cloth with black and gilt illustrations and lettering (fraying to the corners and ends of the spine, hin
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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, n.d. (ca 1880). Hardcover -. Good condition in green cloth with black and gilt illustrations and lettering (fraying to the corners and ends of the spine, hinges cracking.). Revised Edition. Seventy-fifth Thousand. Foreword on ' Fisk University's Great Necessity' dated 1880. Author's note stating that this was ".in part an abridgement of the two Jubilee Histories which were written by the Rev. G.D. Pike, one giving an account of the first campaign in America and the other of the first visit to Great Britain. But the interval between the two narratives is here bridged over, and the story is brought down to the return of the Jubilee Singers from Germany. The personal histories have been more fully written out and a large number of new songs have been added." The Jubilee singers were a small group of former slaves who embarked on their tour to raise funds for Fisk University. Illustrated, including an Albertype frontispiece photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard.. Includes 128 songs. vii, 265 pp. Previous owner's name with the notation "bought when the Jubilee Singers were in Mansfield in 1880."
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- Title
- THE STORY OF THE JUBILEE SINGERS: With Their Songs
- Author
- Marsh, J. B. T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good condition in green cloth with black and gilt illustrations and lettering (fraying to the corners and ends of the spine, hin
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- n.d. (ca 1880)
- Keywords
- music, fisk university, african american history,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Slavery Abolition Reconstruction;
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