Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry

1. Introduction
Lauri Ramey

2. Slave Songs and the Lyric Poetry Traditions
Lauri Ramey

3. Theology and Lyric Poetry in Slave Songs
Lauri Ramey

4. Slave Songs as American Poetry
Lauri Ramey

5. Border Crossing in Slave Songs
Lauri Ramey

Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature, Social History, Oral History, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature