HISTORY DETECTIVES | Slave Songbook | PBS

Buy the DVD: http://www.shoppbs.org/entry.point?entry=3450837&source=PBSCS_YOUTUBE_HID... for more info: http://www.pbs.org/historydetectives. Watch the full segment from the History Detectives Special celebrating African American contributions to music. The president of the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum in Culver City, California, recently discovered an unusual book in his late mother's extraordinary collection of African-American artifacts. The small, cloth-bound book, titled Slave Songs of the United States, has a publication date of 1867 and contains a collection of 136 plantation songs. Could this be the first book of African-American spirituals ever published? HISTORY DETECTIVES host Wes Cowan visits a music historian in Los Angeles to explore the coded messages and the melodies that laid the foundation of modern blues, gospel and protest songs of future generations. He also meets with Washington, DC's Howard University Choir for a special concert of selections from Slave Songs sung in the traditional style of mid-1800s spirituals.

Exploring historical objects and the stories behind them, HISTORY DETECTIVES crisscrosses the country, delving into legends, folklore and personal histories to discover potentially extraordinary objects in everyday American homes, cities and small towns. Watch for the new season of History Detectives premiering June 2009. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/historydetectives.

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[coSMia2010]

If the idiots in congress get their way, NO ONE will get to see great programing like this. Let your Senators know that U don't want them to cut funding for public broadcasting stations. If they want to trim the budget, they can quit prosecuting and jailing people for marijuana offences. That would be far more beneficial to budget and to the people. DO NOT let goverment dumb us down. When people forget about slavery, they become much easier to enslave.

[rfdatagroup]

@ZaydelZemirah Haplogroup B from East Africa 50,000 years ago and migrated to West africa

[barbaramack1957]

WOW! This is so amazing. I am very thankful for this information. I can share it with others.

[riceboy1701e]

@coSMia2010 Not only that, but also FORCE Congress to cut THEIR BLOATED SALARIES! And eliminate ALL of their perks...private post office, barbers, health insurance, EVERYTHING!

[rusty1491]

Most of the catalog of Stephen Foster is stolen slave songs.

[AnaNatta]

@ZaydelZemirah negro means black in latin. 

[beastshawnee]

@female115 even Elvis was part black! He was Melungian, a mixture of Native American Indian, black, and white...so was Abraham Lincoln...psst you don't have to claim him if you still don't want to....

[CalypieAndroid]

@ZaydelZemirah Yes Lord, We are Awakening and Know we are the Only Judah, Dueteronomy 28:68

[CalypieAndroid]

@rfdatagroup Yes, Lord, Shemites first Born. Older then Hamites.

[andreastruble]

@zaydelzemirah Amen to your knowledge of HIStory!

[brianmusak]

yis are all wrong ..it was the Formorians 

[ZaydelZemirah]

@rfdatagroup mkay, if u say so...