Charles Pickard Ware (c. 1840–1921) was an American educator and music transcriber. An abolitionist, he served as a civilian administrator in the Union Army, where he was a labor superintendent of

freedmen A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their owners), emancipation (granted freedom as part of a larger group), or self- ...

on plantations at

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, during the

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. This included Seaside Plantation. It is here that he transcribed many slave songs with tunes and lyrics, later published in ''

Slave Songs of the United States ''Slave Songs of the United States'' was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential, collection of spirituals to be published. The collectors of the songs were No ...

'', which he edited with William Francis Allen and Lucy McKim Garrison. It was the first published collection of American folk music. Ware was also an educator in

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, Massachusetts.

References

* William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison, ''Slave Songs of the United States'', 1867, New York *''Manuscript Papers of Charles Pickard Ware, ca. 1862 - 1907'' resides at Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Washington D.C. *Elizabeth Ware Pearson (ed), ''Letters From Port Royal 1862-1868'', 1906, W. B. Clarke Company, Boston. (Initials C.P.W. in this book refer to Charles Pickard Ware.)

External links

''Slave Songs of the United States''''Letters From Port Royal''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ware, Charles Pickard 1840s births 1921 deaths American educators American ethnographers People of the American Civil War People from Port Royal, South Carolina