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 ...

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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 ...