Garrison, Lucy McKim (1842–1877)
Garrison, Lucy McKim (1842–1877)
American song collector. Born Lucy McKim, Oct 30, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died May 11, 1877, in West Orange, New Jersey; m. Wendell Phillips Garrison (son of William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist).
Attended NJ school run by Grimké sisters and the husband of Angelina Grimké; made musical notations of slave songs while accompanying father, who, as general secretary of a Union relief committee, had been sent to help slaves being freed at the Sea Islands off the South Carolina coast (1861); with husband, gathered 1st collection of slave songs to be published, Slave Songs of the United States (1867), on which William Francis Allen and Charles Ware collaborated.
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