And even more rashly, she sang a little slave song.

They taught him slave songs, which he can still sing, and told him stories.

These were fairly authentic religious slave songs borrowed from traveling black singing groups.

Because many cultures used slaves to row, some of these songs might also be considered slave songs.

Randall's book covers a long timeline, from slave songs through the nineteen-sixties.

After eating with friends at the now-defunct Chesapeake restaurant, he stood up and sang a brooding old slave song.

Appalachia (choral orchestral variations on an old slave song, also inspired by Florida) followed there in 1905.

Here is what Du Bois says about these slave songs:

I dream a slave song, a freedom anthem, voices, ancient, yet alive, lifting my life, yours, to new visions of liberation.

White popular music has been pillaging from black culture since the 1800's, when songwriters streamlined slave songs into popular tunes.