From the moment of capture, through the treacherous middle passage, after the final sale and throughout life in North America, the experience of enslaved Africans who first arrived at Jamestown, ...
Mat Callahan is a musician and insurgent historian whose latest project is, “Songs of Slavery and Emancipation.” The book and double-album were released on June 17 by Jalopy Records in New York and a ...
ROCK HILL, S.C - Rock Hill Schools in South Carolina came under fire after a mother reported her child was singing a "slave song" while picking cotton on a school field trip. Fifth grade students at ...
A South Carolina mother was outraged after her 10-year-old son was told to pick cotton and sing a “slave song” while on an elementary school field trip -- but the school defended the activity, saying ...
The religious hymn "This Little Light of Mine" has often been referred to as having originated in the era of American slavery. For instance, on Sept. 26, 1998, the Orlando Sentinel published that the ...
MONTREAL — It was, the critics roared, an insulting and insensitive performance: White women playing black slaves picking cotton. When the show “Slav,” by acclaimed Quebec theater director Robert ...
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