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Bibliography Primary Sources Afro-American Blues and Game 97 Bibliography Primary Sources Afro-American blues and Game songs. Library of Congress, Recording Laboratory, compact disk 1513. Afro-American spirituals, work songs, and ballads. Library of Congress, Recording Laboratory, sound disc AFS L3. Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. “American Rhetoric.” n.d. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/johnfkennedycivilrights.htm (27 March 2005). The American slave: a composite autobiography. Edited by George P. Rawick. 17 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972. Botkin, B.A. ed., Lay my burden down: a folk history of slavery. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. Brown, Sterling. The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. Guy and Candie Carawan Collection (1959-1965), Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina. Carawan, Guy. 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