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Slaves
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Songs allowed slaves to voice their opinions about their lives, their work, and their masters — a voice stifled in any other form. They often were a way to communicate messages to fellow slaves regarding plans to escape or in plotting rebellion against their masters. The rhythms of the songs, as Nicholas Bromell points out, served as a way to regulate work and keep the weary slaves from becoming exhausted. ... In a life composed of nothing but work, the slaves had nothing to call their own. ... Bromell argues that labor cannot be called "work" if those performing it are not in control of their own bodies and their products; therefore, the true "work" of the slaves was their song, as slave songs and spirituals were the one thing which the slaves alone had control over. ... As there are no pictures of the emotion which the slaves songs evoked, the next best thing is the song itself. ... Bromell tries to define work and asks whether the work that the slaves did could be defined as work or defined as a type of freedom from slavery.
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Title: Slaves
Words: 848
Rating: None
Pages: 3.4
submitted by: Addman84
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