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 ...

A rare manuscript of a historical 18th Century slave song is set to go on display in Gloucester Cathedral. The cathedral said it is the world’s oldest surviving music manuscript from the voices ...

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 ...

The songs' lyrics offer a glimpse of the true horror slaves endured as well as a hope and faith that one day they would be free. The voice for generations of African Americans, these songs laid ...

The choir rehearsing their songs, joining hands together. Image: Big Issue Now, two years later, they are close friends and they check in on each other regularly, alongside the other choir members.