Negro Spirituals + Work Songs [Originally Predating the USA, the modern form comes from the circa 1865 variants of either, as whites successfully eliminated most record of black life from being created or if it was created] https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/498-negro-spirituals-work-songs/ Bars Fight 1746 from Lucy Terry https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/348-bars-fight-from-lucy-terry/ Hope Of Liberty 1829 + Poetical Works 1845 from George M Horton https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/485-george-m-horton-remembering-juneteenth/ Le Mulâtre 1837 from Victor Séjour https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/495-le-mul%C3%A2tre-from-victor-s%C3%A9jour-two-versions-split-by-an-essay/ Clotel 1853 from William Well Brown https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/496-clotel-or-the-presidents-daughter-a-narrative-of-slave-life-in-the-united-states-by-william-well-brown/ The Garies and their friends 1857 from Francis Johnson Webb https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/497-the-garies-and-thier-friends/ Blake 1861 from Martin Delaney https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/494-weekly-%C2%A0anglo-african-and-%C2%A0the-pine-and-palm%C2%A0-excerpts-from-1861%E2%80%931862blake-or-the-huts-of-america-a-tale-of-the-mississippi-valley-the-southern-united-states-and-cuba-from-martin-delany/

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