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'Shake Off Your Chains’: The Story Behind ‘Songs of Slavery and Emancipation’

'Shake Off Your Chains’: The Story Behind ‘Songs of Slavery and Emancipation’

EDITOR’S NOTE: Songs of Slavery and Emancipation is a collection of 31 newly discovered songs that don’t just lament slavery but call for resistance and revolt. Some were written by abolitionists, including free Black people and fugitive slaves, and some by people still enslaved. The songs date as

In the Deep End With Chatham Rabbits

In the Deep End With Chatham Rabbits

JOURNAL EXCERPT: Inside the World of Elvis Presley Memorabilia Collectors

JOURNAL EXCERPT: Inside the World of Elvis Presley Memorabilia Collectors

Tedeschi Trucks Band Takes Up Layla’s Point of View on Four-Part ‘I Am the Moon’ Project

Tedeschi Trucks Band Takes Up Layla’s Point of View on Four-Part ‘I Am the Moon’ Project

SPOTLIGHT: S.G. Goodman on Writing Through OCD and Finding Where to Shine the Flashlight

SPOTLIGHT: S.G. Goodman on Writing Through OCD and Finding Where to Shine the Flashlight

SPOTLIGHT: Quiet or Loud, S.G. Goodman Strikes an Emotional Chord

SPOTLIGHT: Quiet or Loud, S.G. Goodman Strikes an Emotional Chord

SPOTLIGHT: How Songwriter Cindy Walker Blazed a Path for Brennen Leigh

SPOTLIGHT: How Songwriter Cindy Walker Blazed a Path for Brennen Leigh