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In 1964, researcher Bruce Jackson traveled to prisons in Texas to record the songs that Black work crews had inherited from their enslaved ancestors. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/14/f...
‘Forty-Four Hammers’ Is Part of a Rich History of Prison Worksongs
The call-and-response song was one of many that Black men sang as they toiled on Southern prison farms.
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