looking for a good site/book list on African American poetry/lyrics on
the theme of resistance to slavery in U.S.  Also, can you find a place
to buy the CD of these lyrics?

Dear Davli,

I found the following list of poems and spiritual lyrics.  I have
organized them into the following categories:
Book citations
Poems and lyrics available on-line
Recordings

I began by searching the African American Poetry Database at:
http://dlib.stanford.edu:6520/text/afro-ampo.html

The African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 Bibliography site was also
helpful:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AAP/AAP.bib.html

Once I compiled a list of authors from these sources I looked them up
individually.

Books:

Anti-Slavery Ballads: Emancipation Car (Composed Exclusively for the
Underground Railroad)
by J. Mc. C. Simpson, 1997.
Ayer Co Pub; ISBN: 0836986512.

Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom, 
By Virginia Hamilton, 2002, Library Binding
Out of print but available at amazon.com

Slave Songs of the United States
by William Francis Allen (Compiler), Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy mc
Garrison
1996, Applewood Books, ISBN: 1557094349

Negro Slave Songs in the United States
by Miles Mark Fisher, Allen Billington, Ray Allen Billington
1991, Citadel Pr; ISBN: 0806500905; Reissue edition

No More!: Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance
by Doreen Rappaport, Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
2002, Candlewick Press; ISBN: 0763609846


Poems available on-line

“The Slave’s Complaint” by George Moses Horton
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/2001/horton0104.html

“The Fugitive Slave” by James Watkins
http://www.huarchivesnet.howard.edu/0008huarnet/fugitive.htm

“A Poem on the Fugitive Slave Law”, E.P. Rogers
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/~triggs/AAP/foo37.pdf

“Old Plantation Days” by Col. W. Mallory
Electronic Edition. 
http://docsouth.unc.edu/mallory/mallory.html

Spirituals and anti-slavery songs
http://www.panix.com/~gmcgath/freesongs.html#Slavery

Slave Songs
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/allen/allen.html

audio samples of some slave songs, .wav format
http://www.appleseedrec.com/underground/sounds.html



I could not find any recordings of poetry, but the following is a list
of recordings and where you can buy them:

Negro Spirituals Sung By River Side
$19.95 at amazon.com

 
Track Listings 
1. Hymn to Freedom2. Jubilee3. Dry Bones4. Anyhow5. Deep River6.
Shadrack7. Swing Down Sweet Chariot8. Hush9. Joshua	10. St. Paul's11.
Rock My Soul12. What a Morning13. When the Saints Go Marching In14.
Amen15. Old Man Mose16. Sixteen Tons17. Freedom

Negro Spirituals, Vol. 2
$14.78 at amazon.com

Gospel & Negro Spirituals
$11.98 at amazon.com

A Long Time to Freedom
Ella Jekins
1992 Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
Available from Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
http://www.folkways.si.edu/

Search Strategy:
African American Poetry slavery
Slave spirituals lyrics
Recordings slave spirituals
Recordings slave poetry

I hope this is helpful,
gitana

thanks gitana