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 ...

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 ...

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 it is the world’s oldest surviving music manuscript from the voices ...

These songs we know by heart and hear so often have rich histories rooted in things like war, religion, social reform, and slavery. Stacker compiled a list of Christmas songs released before 1920 ...

The choir rehearsing their songs, joining hands together ... Both Wendy and Betuin are victims of modern slavery, forced into domestic servitude. “I don’t feel like I was treated as a human being,” ...