Songs of Slavery and Emancipation (Double CD)
Artists: Mat Callahan / Various Artists
Publisher: Jalopy Records
ISBN: B09Y9FWN17
Published: 04/2022
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Format: Audio 2xCD
Size: 5.5 x 5.5
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Subjects: Music, Folk, Black, Slavery
The Songs Of Slavery and Emancipation project presents recently discovered songs composed by enslaved people and explicitly calling for resistance to slavery. Some originate as early as 1800 and others as late as the outbreak of the Civil War. The project also includes long-lost songs of the abolitionist movement, some of which were written by fugitive slaves as well as free black people, challenging common misconceptions of abolitionism.
Thirty one songs are presented in a beautiful hard cover bound double CD and digital download containing new performances in a traditional style by numerous contributing artists.
- 1 Agonizing, Cruel Slavery Days
- 2 The Dirge of St. Malo (Louisiana Creole)
- 3 The Dirge of St. Malo (English)
- 4 Hymn of Freedom
- 5 Uncle Gabriel the Negro General
- 6 The Negro's Complaint
- 7 Recognition March of the Independance of Hayti
- 8 The African Hymn
- 9 Nat Turner
- 10 My Father, How Long?
- 11 March on
- 12 Children, We All Shall Be Free
- 13 Ol' Massa He Come Dancing Out
- 14 The Year of Jubilo
- 15 The Enlisted Men (The Negro Battle Hymn)
- 16 Rebeldia Na Bandabou
- 17 Song of the "Aliened American"
- 18 A Song for Freedom
- 19 Stole and Sold from Africa
- 20 Right on!
- 21 Flight of the Bondman
- 22 The Underground Railroad
- 23 To the White People of America
- 24 Liberty
- 25 The Band of Thieves
- 26 The True Spirit
- 27 Come Join the Abolitionists
- 28 The Voice of Six Hundred Thousand Nominally Free
- 29 We're Coming! We're Coming!
- 30 Woman's Rights
- 31 What Mean Ye?
An accompanying 64 page liner notes booklet includes complete lyrics as well as reproductions of historic documents. The liner notes also include essays by the album’s producer Mat Callahan, scholar Robin D.G. Kelley and activist organizer Kali Akuno.
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation brings a whole era of resistance forward into the twenty-first century. To forget the lessons of the revolt and rebellion of the enslaved or the organizing of the abolitionist networks and the Underground Railroad is to condemn people to the false belief that because one of us is Black and the other is white we can’t unite, we don’t have anything in common, and we can’t work together. And this goes for people of all ethnicities, places of origin, and genders.
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