The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7383 Message #3693099
Posted By: wysiwyg
11-Mar-15 - 11:47 AM
Thread Name: Slave Songs - What Are They Called???
Subject: RE: Slave Songs - What Are They Called???
I believe I posted pre-Mudcat-crash that they were often referred to as "Sorrow Songs" by the enslaved people who created and sang them; a term still in use, which I heard from an AfAM man at a meeting a few years ago.