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R.C. Hagan talks about how his mother made soap out of meat scraps and ashes.
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Making Lye Soap | Digital Traditions
Making Molasses -3 | Digital Traditions
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R.C. Hagan talks about his experiences with making molasses.
Gale McKinley Photos | Digital Traditions
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Gale McKinley learned to make fish baskets by watching her father and grandfather. Her dad, Juby McKinley, is seventy-three years old, and he learned split-oak basket making from his dad, Amos...
Work Song | Gullah Music
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Enslaved Africans sang songs as they worked to help keep the pace of the task they were doing. A leader called out a verse or yell and others responded. This is the call-and-response singing tradition...