Africans in America; Interview with Cornelia Bailey, Folklorist and Slave Descendant : Judgment Day
Description:
Cornelia Bailey is interviewed about ancestral memories of coping and perseverance, going to a better place, spiritual communication, the importance of family, revenge stories, life as an overseer, making do with what you have, Butler Island and slave life, hardships of working in rice and feeding your family, preserving pride, going back to go forward, resistance, forming new communities after slavery, joining the church and baptism, religious practice before there was a church, double talking, song for loved ones dying in the field "King Buzzard."
