Charles Pickard Ware (1840–1921), was an American educator and music transcriber. An abolitionist, he served as a civilian administrator in the

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, where he was a labor superintendent of

freedmen A freedman or freedwoman is a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, enslaved people were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their captor-owners), abolitionism, emancipation (gra ...

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 Nort ...

'', which he edited with

William Francis Allen William Francis Allen (September 5, 1830December 9, 1889) was an American classical scholar and an editor of the first book of American slave songs, ''Slave Songs of the United States.'' Allen was born in Northborough, Massachusetts in 1830, the ...

and

Lucy McKim Garrison Lucy McKim Garrison (October 30, 1842 – May 11, 1877) was an American song collector and co-editor of ''Slave Songs of the United States'', together with William Francis Allen and Charles Pickard Ware. Early life Lucy was born in Philadelphia, ...

. It was the first published collection of American folk music. Ware was also an educator in

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, Massachusetts.

References

, Charles Pickard Ware and

, ''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 1849 births 1921 deaths People of the American Civil War People from Port Royal, South Carolina