Slaves sang songs to keep themselves occupied and to help other slaves escape to freedom. In the songs they sang, they talked about the life they had before becoming a slave, about their home, their wives and children and about the pain that they went through. Some songs that we still hear today are songs that were sung by the slaves. For example, "Dayo" is one of the songs that we still hear today.

Before the Civil War, songs became a powerful form of communication and expression among the slaves. Things that the slaves could never speak aloud were sung in songs. They used code words to help slaves escape and to pass information along to those slaves t

There's another river on the other side,

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)