| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Shane White and Graham White. The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech. With CD. Boston, Mass.: Beacon. 2005. Pp. xxii, 241. $29.95.

It has been too long since anyone has surveyed the broad sonic world of slavery, and we are fortunate that two such keen-eared historians have undertaken the task. This book complements and extends the last major work of its kind, Dena J. Epstein's Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War (1977). Like Epstein, Shane White and Graham White mine a prodigious amount of primary material, but they move beyond Epstein's focus on music to encompass the enormous range of sounds slaves crafted and that marked their world. Celebrating that creativity, they provide a superb introduction to this aspect of the slave experience, and the enclosed eighteen-track CD is a bonus that allows us to listen in on some representative samples of the sounds slaves heard and made.

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