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 | | Bruce Jackson, who recorded in Southern prisons in the 1970s, comments: "Southern agricultural penitentiaries were in many respects replicas of nineteenth-century plantations, where groups of slaves did arduous work by hand, supervised by white men with guns and constant threat of awful physical punishment... |
 | | These recordings of oral history, play songs, blues, spirituals, and stories were made in 1948 when Alan Lomax brought Vera Hall from her home in Livingston, Alabama, to New York City for a concert. |
 | | This collection, originally on 1.5 Irish brand recording tapes) was the basis of the seven album Southern Heritage series issued on Altantic Records in 1960 (reissued on CD as Sounds of the South) and the 12-album Prestige International Southern Journey released in 1961 (reissued in expanded form on CD on Rounder Records). |
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