Audio files are available in mp3 format
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"Arwhoolie" holler |
Thomas J. Marshall |
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Levee holler |
Enoch Brown |
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Field holler |
Roosevelt "Giant" Hudson |
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"Oh If Your House Catches Fire" levee camp holler |
Willie Henry Washington |
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"Roxie" |
Convicts, Mississippi |
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"New Buryin' Ground" |
John Brown and African American convicts |
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"Long Hot Summer Day" |
Clyde Hill and African American convicts |
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"Go Preach My Gospel" |
Deacon Harvey Williams and the New Zion Baptist Church congregation |
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"Jesus, My God, I Know His Name" |
Willie Henry Washington, Arthur Bell, Robert Lee Robertson, and Abraham Powell |
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"Go to Sleep" |
Florida Hampton |
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"The Buzzard and the Cooter" |
Demus Green |
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"Prayer" |
Rev. Henry Ward |
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"Run, Old Jeremiah" |
Joe Washington Brown and Austin Coleman |
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"Job, Job" |
Mandy Tartt, Sims Tartt, and Betty Atmore |
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"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" |
Clifford Reed, Johnny Mae Medlock, and Julia Griffin |
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"Have Mercy, Lord" |
Mary Tollman and the Rev. Henry Ward |
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"The Unusual Task of the Gospel Preacher" |
Rev. Harry Singleton |
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"The Man of Calvary" |
Sin-Killer Griffin |
About The Sounds of Slavery: This exploration of African American slavery through sound is a groundbreaking way of understanding both slave culture and American history.
"The authors have undertaken the difficult task of bringing to contemporary readers the sounds of American slave culture . . . [giving] vibrancy and texture to a complex history that has been long neglected." --
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