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TRACKS FOR THE SOUNDS OF SLAVERY
Audio files are available in mp3 format
1 | “Arwhoolie” holler | Thomas J. Marshall | |
2 | Levee holler | Enoch Brown | |
3 | Field holler | Roosevelt “Giant” Hudson | |
4 | “Oh If Your House Catches Fire” levee camp holler | Willie Henry Washington | |
5 | “Roxie“ | Convicts, Mississippi | |
6 | “New Buryin’ Ground“ | John Brown and African American convicts | |
7 | “Long Hot Summer Day“ | Clyde Hill and African American convicts | |
8 | “Go Preach My Gospel“ | Deacon Harvey Williams and the New Zion Baptist Church congregation | |
9 | “Jesus, My God, I Know His Name“ | Willie Henry Washington, Arthur Bell, Robert Lee Robertson, and Abraham Powell | |
10 | “Go to Sleep“ | Florida Hampton | |
11 | “The Buzzard and the Cooter“ | Demus Green | |
12 | “Prayer“ | Rev. Henry Ward | |
13 | “Run, Old Jeremiah“ | Joe Washington Brown and Austin Coleman | |
14 | “Job, Job“ | Mandy Tartt, Sims Tartt, and Betty Atmore | |
15 | “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child“ | Clifford Reed, Johnny Mae Medlock, and Julia Griffin | |
16 | “Have Mercy, Lord“ | Mary Tollman and the Rev. Henry Ward | |
17 | “The Unusual Task of the Gospel Preacher“ | Rev. Harry Singleton | |
18 | “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.” —Booklist