Slave Songs of the United States

Excerpt from Slave Songs of the United StatesIt is not generally known that the beautiful air Long time ago, or Near the lake where drooped the willow, was borrowed from the negroes, by whom it was sung to words beginning, Way down in Raccoon Hollow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.