Emily James talks about the music of Africa performed on a new Colonial Williamsburg recording.
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Music passed from Ear to Ear
Emily James interprets spirited women
Jamaican-born Emily James has interpreted at least 16 different 18th-century women who learned how to survive lives of enslavement.
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Recalling African American Interpretation
Rex Ellis reflects on 25 years of interpreting the African American experience in the colonial period.
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African American Interpretation
Harvey Bakari discusses the rich history of black Americans in Williamsburg.
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Dunmore's Proclamation
Dennis Watson talks about the royal governor’s promise to free slaves and indentured servants who joined the British army in the American Revolution.
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Black Women and the Revolution
Hope Smith talks about the women and children who followed their men to war.
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