The book and double-album were released on June 17 by Jalopy Records in New York and a film of the same name documents the process of discovering and recording American slave rebellion songs that ...

Genealogist Kenyatta D. Berry examines how song was used by slaves to both communicate and express feeling in the moment, as well as and pass history down through generations.

Choreographer Karen Charles was thinking about making a dance set to slave songs, and about her own diverse dance company, when she had an a-ha moment: “I thought, ‘It’s easy to see the ...

The cover of this sheet-music for "The Fugitive's Song" shows a fictionalized and inaccurate version of the escape from slavery of Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), who actually fled by ship.

James E. Thomas, founder and president of the U.S. Slave Song Project Inc., will be the featured presenter during the Kenilworth Historical Society's Black History Month Celebration on the ...

Students at two Owen J. Roberts elementary schools will celebrate Black History Month on Tuesday with an entertaining and moving assembly about slave songs. During the assemblies at North Coventry ...

12 Years a Slave is a film rich in music. Its protagonist is a violinist forced into slavery, and he and his fellow slaves sing spiritual songs to make it through their arduous work in the fields.

12 Years a Slave is the most compelling film about music to be released this year, maybe this century.It's so many other things, too, as others have noted: a corrective to the weird cocktail of ...

Slavery Is a Love Song. By Ta-Nehisi Coates. October 22, 2012. Share. Save "Emancipated Slaves" Photo by Myron H. Kimball. For the past week or so, I've been posting stories, with primary ...

Genealogist Kenyatta D. Berry examines how song was used by slaves to both communicate and express feeling in the moment, as well as and pass history down through generations.

Slavery Is a Love Song. By Ta-Nehisi Coates. December 2, 2012. Share. Save. A commenter sent me this piece from The Volokh Conspiracy responding to Paul Finkelman's op-ed on Thomas Jefferson.