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Handy Songster for Religious Service
by [Georgia]. [African Americana]. Dunn, G.H
- Used
- Condition
- Good.
- Seller
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Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States
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About This Item
[Macon, Ga, 1930. Good.. 13pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Front wrapper chipped at top edge and lower right corner, small chip to lower left corner of rear wrapper, minor soiling to wrappers. Text block tanned but clean. An unrecorded hymnal published in Jim Crow Georgia, which was "compiled by Rev. G.H. Dunn, Presiding Elder of the Macon District of the Macon Georgia Conference and Book Steward for the A.M.E. Church in Georgia." The work includes a portrait and short biographical note on Dunn, followed by the lyrics to fourteen hymns. These songs include "I Wring My Hands and Cry," "I Am on the Battlefield for My Lord," and "Going Back with Jesus When He Comes." Most notably, one of the hymns is titled, "The Negro National Anthem." Otherwise known as "Life Ev'ry Voice and Sing," and later nicknamed "The Negro National Anthem," the song was written by James Weldon Johnson and his brother, John Rosamond in 1900. OCLC locates a nineteen-page edition of this work containing eighteen hymns at Emory, but the present edition -- slightly shorter and with four fewer songs -- is likely an earlier edition.
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- Bookseller
- McBride Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4524
- Title
- Handy Songster for Religious Service
- Author
- [Georgia]. [African Americana]. Dunn, G.H
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- [Macon, Ga
- Date Published
- 1930
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