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Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left  Behind

Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms--including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs expressed the sorrow of bondage and offered a rallying cry for the spirit.

LIke a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song

I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery

Cynthia Grady

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