His song, "America Da Beautiful (Letter To Mr. Sterling)" references Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Ku Klux Klan, cotton plantations ... David West also evoked slavery in his reaction to ...

Released in 1994, the fiddle-fueled “Cotton ... Songs. As Scarborough writes, she learned parts of the tune from “an old man in Louisiana,” who picked it up from enslaved people on a plantation.

re-creations and original takes on slave songs and spirituals are heard throughout the film. Standing at the graveside of a fellow laborer who's perished from exhaustion while picking cotton ...

Of “mud-stills” he prates, and would haughtily bring The world to acknowledge that “Cotton is King ... today as describing the plantation economy of the slavery states in the Deep ...