Cooley Law School. She also co-hosts Genealogy Roadshow on PBS. In this blog post, Berry examines how song was used by slaves to both communicate and express feeling in the moment, as well as and ...

Some things don’t deserve to be sung about, like slavery—especially when the song uses whipping imagery as it attempts to demonstrate the sexual prowess of Black women. But yet that’s ...

Slave Songs of the United States (Sklavenlieder der Vereinigten Staaten) ist eine Sammlung afroamerikanischer Musik, die aus 136 Liedern besteht. Die Sammlung wurde 1867 in New York veröffentlicht und ...

With the multimedia project "Songs of Slavery and Emancipation", which comprises a book, a double CD and a film, Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore dedicate themselves to recently discovered songs, on ...

When slave traders arrived in Sierra Leone ... rituals and art—including Dawley’s ancestral song. Turner, the scholar who first recorded Dawley’s melody, counted Zora Neale Hurston among ...

A rare manuscript of a historical 18th Century slave song is set to go on display in Gloucester Cathedral. The cathedral said ...

Cooley Law School. She also co-hosts Genealogy Roadshow on PBS. In this blog post, Berry examines how song was used by slaves to both communicate and express feeling in the moment, as well as and ...