Chapter 5 Additional materials

Million Dollar Quartet: “Down by the Riverside”
This is a 20th century recording of the classic slave spiritual song by four of Rock n’ Roll’s greatest legends: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRdakA0hLl8&list=RDGRdakA0hLl8

New Museum Depicts Slave Life
This article describes a new Louisiana museum dedicated to showing the harsh daily reality of life as a slave in America. This National Public Radio article can serve as an introduction to some of the issues and controversies surrounding the museum project.
https://www.npr.org/2015/02/27/389563868/new-museum-depicts-the-life-of-a-slave-from-cradle-to-the-tomb

And the Whitney Museum’s own website:
http://www.whitneyplantation.com/