Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave Songs of the United States
by
Samuel Charters
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. During her stay she heard the singing...