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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Folktales | |
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| De Ways of de Wimmens | |
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| Why the Black Man's Hair Is Nappy | |
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| Why the Whites Have Everything | |
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| Upon This Rock | |
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| Why the Rabbit Has a Short Tail | |
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| How the Black Man Lost His Wings | |
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| The False Message: Take My Place | |
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| The Goldstone | |
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| Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Frog Make Mr. Fox and Mr. Bear Their Riding Horses | |
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| Bobtail Beat the Devil | |
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| Making Butter | |
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| Some Are Going, and Some Are Coming | |
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| The Tar Baby | |
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| Buh Squirrel an' Buh Fox | |
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| How Brer Wolf Caught Brer Rabbit | |
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| Straighten Up and Fly Right | |
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| De Two Fren an' de Bear | |
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| De Eagle an' His Chillun | |
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| Buh Lion an' Buh Goat | |
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| De Dyin' Bull-Frog | |
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| The Elephant and the Whale | |
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| Polly Tells on the Slaves | |
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| Hot Biscuits Burn Yo' Ass | |
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| Lookin' for Three Fools | |
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| Uncle Monday | |
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| Sweet-the-Monkey | |
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| The Coon in the Box | |
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| The Mojo | |
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| How? | |
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| Uncle Jim Speaks His Mind | |
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| Pompey | |
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| Thirteen Years | |
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| Why the Guardian Angel Let the Brazos Bottom Negroes Sleep | |
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| You May Fall In Yourself | |
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| I'll Go as Far as Memphis | |
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| Shall We Gather at the River | |
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| Gone to Meddlin' | |
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| Can't Get In | |
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| The One-Legged Grave Robber | |
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| Big Fraid and Lil' Fraid | |
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| The Irishman and the Moon | |
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| The Irishman and the Watermelon | |
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| John and the Twelve Jews | |
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| The Irishman at the Dance | |
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| How Hoodoo Lost His Hand | |
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| Mary Bell | |
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| The Clever Companions | |
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| The Laziest Man | |
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| The Lazy Man | |
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| Folk Music | |
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| Spirituals and Other Freedom Songs | |
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| Every Time I Feel the Spirit | |
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| Many Thousand Gone | |
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| I'm Gon' Live So God Can Use Me | |
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| Swing Low, Sweet Chariot | |
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| Go Down, Moses | |
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| Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep | |
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| Steal Away | |
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| Oh, Freedom | |
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| Nobody Knows de Trouble I See | |
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| No Man Can Hinder Me | |
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| I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned | |
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| Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child | |
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| Rock-a My Soul | |
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| Uncloudy Day | |
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| John Brown's Body | |
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| My Army Cross Over | |
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| One More Valiant Soldier | |
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| Ride In, Kind Saviour | |
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| We'll Soon Be Free | |
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| When Dat Ar Ole Chariot Comes | |
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| Lay This Body Down | |
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| Ain't Gon' Study War No More | |
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| I Heard from Heaven Today | |
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| Soon I Will Be Done wid de Troubles o' the World | |
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| I Want to Go Home | |
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| Wade in de Water | |
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| Ole Time Religion | |
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| Somebody's Knocking at Your Door | |
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| No Hiding Place | |
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| Heaven, Heaven | |
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| O Canaan | |
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| Michael, Row de Boat A-Shore | |
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| Were You There? | |
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| Done wid Driber's Dribin' | |
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| Dry Bones | |
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| Song of the Coffle Gang | |
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| A Song for Freedom | |
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| Get on the Bus | |
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| I'll Overcome Some Day/We Shall Overcome | |
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| We's Free | |
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| Blues | |
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| Po' Boy 'Long Way from Home | |
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| Look'd Down de Road | |
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| Frisco Rag-Time | |
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| The Hesitating Blues | |
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| Joe Turner's Blues | |
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| The St. Louis Blues | |
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| The Lonesome Blues | |
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| Beale Street | |
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| Long Gone | |
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| Trouble in Mind | |
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| Careless Love | |
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| Backwater Blues | |
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| Jail-House Blues | |
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| Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out | |
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| Wild Women Don't Have the Blues | |
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| Last Minute Blues | |
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| I Ain't No Ice Man | |
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| Miscellaneous Blues Lines | |
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| 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do | |
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| The New York Glide | |
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| Let the Good Times Roll | |
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| Ballads and Other Folk Songs | |
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| Jimmy Crack Corn | |
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| Charleston Gals | |
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| Marry Me | |
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| Frankie and Johnnie | |
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| The Lynchers | |
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| Zydeco and Ballads from Louisiana Creoles of Color | |
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| Zydeco Calinda | |
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| Sale Dame | |
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| Eh, La Bas | |
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| Maw-maw's Creole Lullaby | |
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| Rap | |
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| Ghetto Thang | |
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| The Style of Soul | |
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| Looking Down on Her | |
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| The Poetry of Motion | |
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| Corn-Shucking and Christmas Festivities | |
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| The Party | |
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| No Other Preacher Could Walk like Him | |
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| The Handsome Soldier | |
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| Colored People of Richmond in 1852 | |
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| Fashion Plates | |
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| Zora Neale Hurston | |
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| Rent Parties | |
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| Going Negro | |
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| Shooting the Agate | |
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| Rinehart, Poppa | |
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| Honky Tonk Bud | |
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| The Election Day Festival | |
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| Pinkster Day | |
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| The Route Step | |
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| John Koonering | |
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| The Colored Band | |
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| The Zulus | |
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| Photograph of King Zulu | |
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| The Black Indians | |
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| Didn't He Ramble | |
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| A Different Style | |
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| Learning to Swing | |
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| Stepping: Regeneration through Dance in African American Fraternities and Sororities | |
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| Step Show at Virginia State University | |
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| The Virginia State University Marching Band | |
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| The Twist | |
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| Dreadlocks | |
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| Folk Arts and Crafts | |
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| Carvings and Sculptures | |
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| Seated Figure Holding a Bowl | |
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| My Aunt Betsey Told Me | |
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| Country Preacher | |
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| Walking Stick | |
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| The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly | |
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| Male Angel | |
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| Large Lady in Beige Outfit | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Afro-Carolinian Face Vessel | |
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| Dave's Pottery | |
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| Dolls and Other Toys | |
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| Toys Fashioned in the Polk Family | |
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| Black Raggedy Ann | |
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| Musical Instruments | |
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| Banjo | |
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| New Orleans Musical Instruments | |
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| Everyday Objects | |
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| Animals | |
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| Lamp | |
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| Rocking Chair | |
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| Quilting Parties | |
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| Key Basket | |
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| "Tramp Art" Bureau | |
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| Basketmaker and His Tools | |
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| Crafts | |
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| Making Mullet Net | |
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| Purse Seine | |
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| Graffiti | |
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| Hand Signs from the 79 Family Swan Bloods, 1996 | |
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| Pirus Rule the Streets of Bompton [Compton] Fool's | |
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| No More Prisons | |
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| Graffiti on Second Street | |
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| A Bum Was Here | |
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| Graffiti at Maggie L. Walker High School | |
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| Moving Graffiti | |
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| A Few Items from the Encyclopedia of Graffiti | |
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| Sermons and Other Speeches | |
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| Ain't I a Woman | |
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| My Slave Experience in Maryland | |
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| What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? | |
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| Prince Lambkin's Oration on the American Flag | |
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| Sister Lucy | |
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| Silas | |
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| Potee's Gal | |
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| The Sun Do Move | |
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| Photograph of the Reverend John Jasper | |
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| The Highway That Skirts Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church | |
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| Eulogium on Henry Highland Garnet, D.D. | |
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| An Ante-Bellum Sermon | |
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| Let My People Go | |
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| Barlo's Sermon | |
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| Behold de Rib! | |
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| A Love Letter from de Lord | |
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| What of the Night? | |
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| The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest | |
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| I Have a Dream | |
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| Eulogy for the Martyred Children | |
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| Our God Is Marching On | |
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| Message to the Grass Roots | |
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| The Ballot or the Bullet | |
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| Keep Hope Alive | |
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| Testimony of Conversion | |
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| Light as a Feather | |
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| I Am Blessed but You Are Damned | |
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| God Struck Me Dead | |
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| Pray a Little Harder | |
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| Salvation | |
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| Family Folklore and Personal Memorates | |
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| God Delivered 'Em | |
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| Grandma | |
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| My Marster ... Was a Good Man | |
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| My Life | |
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| Fire Sticks | |
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| It's a Good Time to Dress You Out | |
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| Childhood | |
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| The Smell of Death | |
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| Photograph of Clem Bolder | |
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| Our Papa's People | |
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| Freedom's Child | |
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| We Were Always Free | |
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| Life among the Lowly | |
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| Sally | |
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| Confession | |
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| Ruthville Post Office | |
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| Unrequited Love | |
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| Let the Wheelers Roll | |
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| The Sheriff | |
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| I Was Leaving | |
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| I Am a Hard Woman | |
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| The Difference between Us and Them | |
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| I Limit My Syllable Output | |
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| If You Ain't in the Know, You Are in Danger | |
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| Driving While Black | |
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| Soul Food | |
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| Rabbit in de Briar Patch | |
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| What's Mo Temptin to de Palate? | |
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| Ain't Ready for Integration | |
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| Chitterlings and Fried Chitterlings | |
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| Baked Chicken | |
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| Fried Chicken with Gravy | |
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| Pigs' Feet | |
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| Pork Chop Casserole | |
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| Beef Ribs | |
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| Spicy Country Meat Loaf | |
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| I Always Think of Meatloaf | |
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| Baked Shad | |
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| Jambalaya | |
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| Saltfish and Cabbage | |
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| Sloppy Salmon | |
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| Pot Meals | |
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| Chicken Pot Pie | |
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| Aunt Honey's Rabbit Stew and Peach Wine | |
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| Greens I | |
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| Greens II | |
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| Baked Beans | |
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| Corn Pudding | |
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| Corn Pudding | |
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| Candied Yams | |
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| Potato Salad | |
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| Deviled Eggs | |
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| Cucumber Salad | |
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| Grits Casserole | |
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| Rolls | |
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| Spoonbread | |
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| Cornbread | |
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| My Mama's Corn Pone: or, Hot Water Cornbread | |
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| Eggnog | |
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| Chocolate Fudge | |
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| Chocolate Fudge | |
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| Fruit Cobbler | |
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| Applesauce Rum Cake | |
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| Aunt Maude's Sweet Potato Pie | |
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| Sweet Potato Pudding | |
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| Blackberry Bread Pudding | |
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| Wine Jelly | |
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| Pear Preserves | |
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| Proverbs and Other Memorable Sayings | |
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| Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions | |
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| You Reap What You Sow | |
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| The Pot Calling the Kettle Black | |
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| Aphorisms and Other Proverbial Sayings | |
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| Other Figurative Language | |
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| Reflections on American Justice | |
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| Folk Rhymes, Work Songs, and Shouts | |
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| My Ole Missis/Massa | |
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| Run, Nigger, Run, De Patteroler'll Ketch You | |
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| Long Gone | |
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| Jack and Dinah Want Freedom | |
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| The Big Bee | |
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| We Raise de Wheat | |
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| I'll Eat When I'm Hungry | |
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| Aught's a Aught | |
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| Missus in the Big House | |
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| Charlie | |
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| Destitute Former Slave Owners | |
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| Hang Up the Shovel and the Hoe | |
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| The Lord's Prayer | |
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| If You're White | |
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| American Justice | |
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| Oh, Lord, Will I Ever? | |
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| Bedbug | |
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| Old Man Know-All | |
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| When I Go to Marry | |
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| Slave Marriage Ceremony Supplement | |
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| Love Is Just a Thing of Fancy | |
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| Interpret Dat | |
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| John Henry | |
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| Shine | |
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| Stagolee | |
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| Railroad Bill | |
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| The Signifying Monkey | |
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| Betty and Dupree | |
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| The Wanderer's Trail | |
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| Convict's Prayer | |
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| An Escaped Convict | |
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| World War II Rhymes | |
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| The War Is On | |
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| Craps Rhymes | |
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| Craps Lines | |
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| Jump Jim Crow | |
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| Little Sally Walker | |
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| Hull-Gull and Other Games | |
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| Juba | |
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| Juber | |
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| Mary Mack | |
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| Patty-Cake | |
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| Hambone, Hambone | |
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| Grandma, Grandma | |
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| This Little Pig | |
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| We Must, We Must, We Must | |
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| Anniebelle | |
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| Raise Up | |
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| Damn de Cap'm! | |
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| I'm a Man | |
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| Got One Mind for the White Folks to See | |
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| Street Cries | |
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| Photographs of Arabbers | |
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| Street Cries | |
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| Baptist Chitlins | |
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| I Am Gwine to Glory | |
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| Autograph Album Rhymes | |
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| Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries | |
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| Rhymes and Brags from Muhammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay | |
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| The Ring Shout | |
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| Photograph of Ring Shout | |
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| We Never Did Let It Go By | |
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| Riddles and Other Verbal Tests and Contests | |
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| Riddles | |
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| More Riddles | |
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| Some More Riddles | |
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| Tall Tales | |
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| More Tall Tales | |
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| Sample of a "Courtship" Conversation | |
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| Antebellulm Courtship Inquiry | |
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| Yo' Mama | |
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| The Dozens | |
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| More Dozens | |
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| Insults | |
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| More Insults | |
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| Responses to the Dozens and Other Insults | |
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| Retorts | |
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| Superstitions and Other Folk Beliefs | |
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| Popular Beliefs | |
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| More Beliefs | |
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| Good Luck | |
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| Wedding Colors | |
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| Medical Help | |
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| Cures for Rheumatism | |
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| Signs from the Hampton Folk-Lore Society | |
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| Old Jule | |
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| Preparation for the Crown of Power | |
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| Sandy's Roots | |
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| Voodoo in St. Louis | |
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| Magic Power | |
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| Witches Who Ride | |
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| Mojo | |
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| Returning to Africa | |
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| Flying Africans | |
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| Voodoo Had Hold of Him, Too | |
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| Little Eight John | |
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| The Stubborn Piano | |
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| In the Name of the Lord | |
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| What Do You Want Here? | |
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| The Dog Ghost and the Buried Money | |
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| The Boy and the Ghost | |
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| Hold Him, Tabb | |
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| Old Joe Can Keep His Two Bits | |
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| The Witch with a Gold Ring | |
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| Beliefs and Customs Connected with Death and Burial | |
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| The Rumor Mill | |
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| The Slave Ship | |
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| Liable to Plot Rebellion | |
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| Caution!! | |
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| Cinque | |
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| Night Doctors | |
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| Voting Rights of African Americans to Expire | |
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| Social Security Numbers--Odd or Even | |
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| Black Colleges to Close Down Forever | |
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| Health Alert | |
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| You Have Been Infected with HIV | |
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| AIDS | |
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| Attention! | |
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| Driving Tips | |
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| Black Blood | |
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| Boycott Tommy Hilfiger | |
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| A Brief Summary of a Few Prevalent Rumors | |
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| Techlore | |
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| N.U.D. | |
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| No Fear | |
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| We Niggas Today | |
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| Ten Indisputable Truths... | |
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| You Went to a Black University | |
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| Ghetto Wedding | |
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| You Probly frum da Projeks If | |
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| Only Black Folks | |
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| Check Black... | |
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| Ebonics Version of Windows 98 | |
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| Your Office Is Ghetto When... | |
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| Two Genies | |
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| You Know You're at a Black Church | |
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| Alligator Shoes | |
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| Hillbilly First Aid | |
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| When a Yankee Moves South | |
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| The Dayvorce | |
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| Redneck Jokes | |
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| West Virginia Medical Terminology for the Layman | |
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| The Strong Black Woman Is Dead | |
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| The Liberation of Aunt Jemima | |
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| Only a Black Woman | |
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| That's My House | |
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| Women's Problems Start with Men | |
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| Three Wise Women | |
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| The Smarter Sex | |
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| The Gender of Computers | |
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| Life before the Computer | |
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| For All Those Born Prior to 1940 | |
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| The Really Good Old Days When We Were Young | |
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| A Little Mixed Up | |
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| You Know You're Old When... | |
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| Chuckle for the Day | |
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| Creation | |
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| Precious Memories | |
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| Can You Find the 19 Books of the Bible? | |
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| From the Mouths of Babes | |
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| What My Mother Taught Me | |
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| A Few Things Not to Say to a Cop | |
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| Audiovisual Resources | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |