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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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 ...

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The song was linked to the Anacreontic Society ... The third verse is probably the most historically problematic verse. Key was a slave-owner with anti-abolitionist views, and in this verse ...

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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 ...