num_pages: 241
description: Songs, speeches, and sermons provide a revealing window into the sufferings of slaves a century ago, and this groundbreaking work collects some of the most revealing of such documents from the 1700s through the 1850s.
language: English
title: The Sounds Of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, And Speech
titlecomplete: The Sounds Of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, And Speech
genres: Music, Nonfiction, American History, History, African American
ratings_count: 28
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Frederick Douglass Book Prize
publisher: Beacon Pr