Rock-a my soul: introduction -- Go tell it: African American storytellers -- Over Jordan: ancestral Africa -- Pilgrims of sorrow: Atlantic slave trade -- Get on board: the underground railroad -- Let my people go: emancipation's plea -- Somebody's knockin': emancipation and reconstruction -- The walls of Jericho: the civil rights movement -- That old time religion: spiritual heritage -- Music in the air: musical legacy -- Plenty good room: kinfolk and kindred.