Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Frederick Douglass and Underground Railroad

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The Liberator Book Review: Fredrick Douglass


FREDERICK DOUGLASS

FROM The Liberator, 30 May 1845.

My readers will be delighted to learn that Frederick Douglass—the fugitive slave—has at last concluded his narrative. All who know the wonderful gifts of friend Douglass know that his narrative must, in the nature of things, be written with great power. It is so indeed. It is the most thrilling work which the American press ever issued—and the most important. If it does not open the eyes of this people, they must be petrified into eternal sleep.

The picture it presents of slavery is too horrible to look upon, and yet it is but a faint picture of what to millions is a vivid life. It is evidently drawn with a nice eye, and the coloring is chaste and subdued, rather than extravagant or overwrought. Thrilling as it is, and full of the most burning eloquence, it is yet simple and unimpassioned. Its eloquence is the eloquence of truth, and so is as simple and touching as the impulses of childhood. There are passages in it which would brighten the reputation of any living author,—while the book, as a whole, judged as a mere work of art, would widen the fame of Bunyan or De Foe. A spirit of the loftiest integrity, and a vein of the purest religious sentiment, runs through its pages, and it must leave on every mind a deep conviction of the author's strength of mind and purity of heart. I predict for it a sale of at least twenty thousand in this country, and equally great in Europe. It will leave a mark upon this age which the busy finger of time will deepen at every touch. It will generate a public sentiment in this nation, in the presence of which our pro-slavery laws and constitutions shall be like chaff in the presence of fire. It contains the spark which will kindle up the smouldering embers of freedom in a million souls, and light up our whole continent with the flames of liberty. Great efforts will be made in the name of the Constitution and the Bible, of James Polk and the Apostle Paul, to suppress it: but it will run through this nation from house to house, and from heart to heart, as the wild fire, finding wings in every wind which blows, flies across the tall and boundless prairies. Its stirring incidents will fasten themselves on the eager minds of the youth of this country with hooks of steel. The politics of the land will stand abashed before it, while her more corrupt religion will wish to sink back into the hot womb which gave it birth. It will fall in among the churches and state-houses of the land like a bomb-shell, and those who madly undertake to pick it to pieces will share the fate of that poor New-Yorker who attempted something of the kind on a bomb-shell picked up on the shores of Jersey, i. e., they will be blowed to atoms at the first blow.

—Lynn Pioneer

Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895

Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895

Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay, whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe. Those beautiful vessels, robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye of freemen, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition. I have often, in the deep stillness of a summer's Sabbath, stood all alone upon the lofty banks of that noble bay, and traced, with saddened heart and tearful eye, the countless number of sails moving off to the mighty ocean. The sight of these always affected me powerfully. My thoughts would compel utterance; and there, with no audience but the Almighty, I would pour out my soul's complaint, in my rude way, with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships:--

"You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron! O that I were free! O, that I were on one of your gallant decks, and under your protecting wing! Alas! betwixt me and you, the turbid waters roll. Go on, go on. O that I could also go! Could I but swim! If I could fly! O, why was I born a man, of whom to make a brute. The glad ship is gone; she hides in the dim distance. I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery. O God, save me! God, deliver me!
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Let me be free! Is there any God? Why am I a slave? I will run away. I will not stand it. Get caught, or get clear, I'll try it. I had as well die with ague as the fever. I have only one life to lose. I had as well be killed running as die standing. Only think of it; one hundred miles straight north, and I am free! Try it? Yes! God helping me, I will. It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave. I will take to the water. This very bay shall yet bear me into freedom. The steamboats steered in a north-east course from North Point. I will do the same; and when I get to the head of the bay, I will turn my canoe adrift, and walk straight through Delaware into Pennsylvania. When I get there, I shall not be required to have a pass; I can travel without being disturbed. Let but the first opportunity offer, and, come what will, I am off. Meanwhile, I will try to bear up under the yoke. I am not the only slave in the world. Why should I fret? I can bear as much as any of them. Besides, I am but a boy, and all boys are bound to some one. It may be that my misery in slavery will only increase my happiness when I get free. There is a better day coming."

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

COINTELPRO: FBI's War On Black America



COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs designed to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO's of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations. In the early 1950s, the Communist Party was illegal in the United States. The Senate and House of Representatives each set up investigating committees to prosecute communists and publicly expose them. (The House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy). When a series of Supreme Court rulings in 1956 and 1957 challenged these committees and questioned the constitutionality of Smith Act prosecutions and Subversive Activities Control Board hearings, the FBI's response was COINTELPRO, a program designed to "neutralize" those who could no longer be prosecuted. Over the years, similar programs were created to neutralize civil rights, anti-war, and many other groups, many of which were said to be "communist front organizations." As J. Edgar Hoover, longtime Director of the FBI, put it

The forces which are most anxious to weaken our internal security are not always easy to identify. Communists have been trained in deceit and secretly work toward the day when they hope to replace our American way of life with a Communist dictatorship. They utilize cleverly camouflaged movements, such as peace groups and civil rights groups to achieve their sinister purposes. While they as individuals are difficult to identify, the Communist party line is clear. Its first concern is the advancement of Soviet Russia and the godless Communist cause. It is important to learn to know the enemies of the American way of life.

The FBI conducted more than 2000 COINTELPRO operations before the the programs were officially discontinued in April of 1971, after public exposure, in order to "afford additional security to [their] sensitive techniques and operations." Click here for more information.



Monday, August 24, 2009

Civil Rights v. Civil War

The parallels between the civil rights movement of the 1960's and the events and issues of the Civil War has forced historians to revise the history of reconstruction, placing a new emphasis on race and slavery as the main cause of The Civil War. Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews James McPherson, Pulitzer and Pritzker prize winning author, noted Civil War Historian and Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University , about his new book, This Mighty Scourge- Perspectives on the Civil War, on this episode of The Massachusetts School of Law's Books of our Time.


Civil War - James. M. McPherson - This Mighty Scourge, Perspectives on the Civil War, part 1

Meet The Press with NAACP Roy Wilkiins and Martin Luther KIng, Jr.



March on Washington


I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

Malcolm X's Response to the March On Washington



Malcolm X on Negro Leaders and March on Washington (pt 1/2)



Malcolm X on Negro Leaders and March on Washington (pt 2/2)

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)


Kwame Ture the man formerly known as Stokely Carmichael represents one of the most energetic voices from the Civil Rights/Black Power Movement. As we discover the history of 400 years of enslavement and the 100 years of subjugation following emancipation, certain voices like Kwame Ture from the struggle for black freedom emerge. These people were the generals in the freedom struggle. It wasn't easy. I thank them for their earnestness in times of cynicism.

Here is a Kwame Ture interview from 1996, what a treasure.

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) 1996 Interview part 1 of 5


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Dr. Kenneth Clark Interviews James Baldwin

James Baldwin Interview (1 of 3)

Dr. Kenneth Clark: Through a strange set of circumstances, we managed to record this conversation with James Baldwin immediately after both of us attended that now-famous meeting between a group of Mr. Baldwin's friends and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. I believe much of the emotion of that historic occasion spilled over into our conversation. In an attempt to ease the tension, I started by asking him to dig back and tell us something about his childhood and his growing up.

James Baldwin: My mind is someplace else, really. But to think back on it -- I was born in Harlem, Harlem Hospital, and we grew up -- first house I remember was on Park Avenue -- which is not the American Park Avenue, or maybe it is the American Park Avenue --

Clark: Uptown Park Avenue?

Baldwin: Uptown Park Avenue, where the railroad tracks are. We used to play on the roof and in the -- I can't call it an alley -- but near the river -- it was a kind of dump, garbage dump. Those were the first scenes I remember. I remember my father had trouble keeping us alive -- there were nine of us. I was the oldest so I took care of the kids and dealt with Daddy. I understand him much better now. Part of his problem was he couldn't feed his kids, but I was a kid and I didn't know that. He was very religious, very rigid. He kept us together, I must say, and when I look back on it -- that was over 40 years ago that I was born -- when I think back on my growing up and walk that same block today, because it's still there, and think of the kids on that block now, I'm aware that something terrible has happened which is very hard to describe.

I am, in all but technical legal fact, a Southerner. My father was born in the South -- no, my mother was born in the South, and if they had waited two more seconds I might have been born in the South. But that means I was raised by families whose roots were essentially rural --

Clark: Southern rural...

Baldwin: Southern rural, and whose relation to the church was very direct, because it was the only means they had of expressing their pain and their despair. But 20 years later the moral authority which was present in the Negro Northern community when I was growing up has vanished, and people talk about progress, and I look at Harlem which I really know -- I know it like I know my hand -- and it is much worse there today than it was when I was growing up.

Clark: Would you say this is true of the schools too?

Baldwin: It is much worse in the schools.

Clark: What school did you go to?

Baldwin: I went to P.S. 24 and I went to P.S. 139. Frederick Douglass...

Clark: We are fellow alumni. I went to 139.

Baldwin: I didn't like a lot of my teachers, but I had a couple of teachers who were very nice to me -- one was a Negro teacher. You ask me these questions and I'm trying to answer you. I remember coming home from school -- you can guess how young I must have been -- and my mother asked me if my teacher was colored or white, and I said she was a little bit colored and a little bit white. But she was about your color. As a matter of fact I was right.

That's part of the dilemma of being an American Negro; that one is a little bit colored and a little bit white, and not only in physical terms but in the head and in the heart, and there are days -- this is one of them -- when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. How, precisely, are you going to reconcile yourself to your situation here and how you are going to communicate to the vast, heedless, unthinking, cruel, white majority, that you are here? And to be here means that you can't be anywhere else.

I'm terrified at the moral apathy -- the death of the heart which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long, that they really don't think I'm human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say, and this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters. It's a terrible indictment -- I mean every word I say.

Clark: Well, we are confronted with the racial confrontation in America today. I think the pictures of dogs in the hands of human beings attacking other human beings --

Baldwin: In a free country -- in the middle of the 20th century.

Clark: In a free country. This Birmingham, clearly not restricted to Birmingham, as you so eloquently pointed out. What do you think can be done to change -- to use your term -- the moral fiber of America?

Baldwin: I think that one has got to find some way of putting the present administration of this country on the spot. One has got to force, somehow, from Washington, a moral commitment, not to the Negro people, but to the life of this country.

It doesn't matter any longer, and I'm speaking for myself, for Jimmy Baldwin, and I think I'm speaking for a great many Negroes too. It doesn't matter any longer what you do to me; you can put me in jail, you can kill me. By the time I was 17, you'd done everything that you could do to me. The problem now is, how are you going to save yourselves?

James Baldwin Interview (2 of 3)


Dr. Kenneth Clark: You mean the attorney general of the United States?

Baldwin: Mr. Robert Kennedy -- didn't know that I would have trouble convincing my nephew to go to Cuba, for example, to liberate the Cubans in defense of a government which now says it is doing everything it can do, which cannot liberate me. Now, there are 20 million people in this country, and you can't put them all in jail. I know how my nephew feels, I know how I feel, I know how the cats in the barbershop feel.

A boy last week, he was sixteen, in San Francisco, told me on television -- thank God we got him to talk -- maybe somebody thought to listen. He said, "I've got no country. I've got no flag." Now, he's only 16 years old, and I couldn't say, "you do." I don't have any evidence to prove that he does. They were tearing down his house, because San Francisco is engaging -- as most Northern cities now are engaged -- in something called urban renewal, which means moving the Negroes out. It means Negro removal, that is what it means. The federal government is an accomplice to this fact.

Now, we are talking about human beings, there's not such a thing as a monlithic wall or some abstraction called the Negro problem, these are Negro boys and girls, who at 16 and 17 don't believe the country means anything that it says and don't feel they have any place here, on the basis of the performance of the entire country.

Clark: But now, Jim --

Baldwin: Am I exaggerating?

James Baldwin Interview (3 of 3)


Clark: What do you see? Are you essentially optimistic or pessimistic, and I really don't want to put words in your mouth, because what I really want to find out is what you really believe.

Baldwin: I'm both glad and sorry you asked me that question, but I'll do my best to answer it. I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter, so I'm forced to be an optimist. I'm forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive. But the future of the Negro in this country is precisely as bright or as dark as the future of the country. It is entirely up to the American people and our representatives -- it is entirely up to the American people whether or not they are going to face, and deal with, and embrace this stranger whom they maligned so long.

What white people have to do, is try and find out in their own hearts why it was necessary to have a nigger in the first place, because I'm not a nigger, I'm a man, but if you think I'm a nigger, it means you need it.

The question you have got to ask yourself -- the white population of this country has got to ask itself -- North and South, because it's one country, and for a Negro, there's no difference between the North and South. There's just a difference in the way they castrate you. But the fact of the castration is the American fact. If I'm not a nigger here and you invented him, you, the white people, invented him, then you've got to find out why. And the future of the country depends on that. Whether or not it's able to ask that question.

Clark: As a Negro and as an American, I can only hope that America has the strength and the capacity --

Baldwin: And the moral strength.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson



SIR,

I AM fully sensible of the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion ; a liberty which seemed to me scarcely allowable, when I reflected on that distinguished and dignified station in which you stand, and the almost general prejudice and prepossession, which is so prevalent in the world against those of my complexion. 1.

I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world ; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt ; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments.2.

Sir, I hope I may safely admit, in consequence of that report which hath reached me, that you are a man far less inflexible in sentiments of this nature, than many others ; that you are measurably friendly, and well disposed towards us ; and that you are willing and ready to lend your aid and assistance to our relief, from those many distresses, and numerous calamities, to which we are reduced. 3.

Now Sir, if this is founded in truth, I apprehend you will embrace every opportunity, to eradicate that train of absurd and false ideas and opinions, which so generally prevails with respect to us ; and that your sentiments are concurrent with mine, which are, that one universal Father hath given being to us all ; and that he hath not only made us all of one flesh, but that he hath also, without partiality, afforded us all the same sensations and endowed us all with the same faculties ; and that however variable we may be in society or religion, however diversified in situation or color, we are all of the same family, and stand in the same relation to him..

Sir, if these are sentiments of which you are fully persuaded, I hope you cannot but acknowledge, that it is the indispensible duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race, from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under ; and this, I apprehend, a full conviction of the truth and obligation of these principles should lead all to. 4.

Sir, I have long been convinced, that if your love for yourselves, and for those inestimable laws, which preserved to you the rights of human nature, was founded on sincerity, you could not but be solicitous, that every individual, of whatever rank or distinction, might with you equally enjoy the blessings thereof ; neither could you rest satisfied short of the most active effusion of your exertions, in order to their promotion from any state of degradation, to which the unjustifiable cruelty and barbarism of men may have reduced them..

Sir, I freely and cheerfully acknowledge, that I am of the African race, and in that color which is natural to them of the deepest dye ; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, that I now confess to you, that I am not under that state of tyrannical thraldom, and inhuman captivity, to which too many of my brethren are doomed, but that I have abundantly tasted of the fruition of those blessings, which proceed from that free and unequalled liberty with which you are favored ; and which, I hope, you will willingly allow you have mercifully received, from the immediate hand of that Being, from whom proceedeth every good and perfect Gift. 5.

Sir, suffer me to recal to your mind that time, in which the arms and tyranny of the British crown were exerted, with every powerful effort, in order to reduce you to a state of servitude : look back, I entreat you, on the variety of dangers to which you were exposed ; reflect on that time, in which every human aid appeared unavailable, and in which even hope and fortitude wore the aspect of inability to the conflict, and you cannot but be led to a serious and grateful sense of your miraculous and providential preservation ; you cannot but acknowledge, that the present freedom and tranquility which you enjoy you have mercifully received, and that it is the peculiar blessing of Heaven.6.

This, Sir, was a time when you cleary saw into the injustice of a state of slavery, and in which you had just apprehensions of the horrors of its condition. It was now that your abhorrence thereof was so excited, that you publicly held forth this true and invaluable doctrine, which is worthy to be recorded and remembered in all succeeding ages : ``We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'' Here was a time, in which your tender feelings for yourselves had engaged you thus to declare, you were then impressed with proper ideas of the great violation of liberty, and the free possession of those blessings, to which you were entitled by nature ; but, Sir, how pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.7.

I suppose that your knowledge of the situation of my brethren, is too extensive to need a recital here ; neither shall I presume to prescribe methods by which they may be relieved, otherwise than by recommending to you and all others, to wean yourselves from those narrow prejudices which you have imbibed with respect to them, and as Job proposed to his friends, ``put your soul in their souls' stead ;'' thus shall your hearts be enlarged with kindness and benevolence towards them; and thus shall you need neither the direction of myself or others, in what manner to proceed herein. And now, Sir, although my sympathy and affection for my brethren hath caused my enlargement thus far, I ardently hope, that your candor and generosity will plead with you in my behalf, when I make known to you, that it was not originally my design ; but having taken up my pen in order to direct to you, as a present, a copy of an Almanac, which I have calculated for the succeeding year, I was unexpectedly and unavoidably led thereto.8.

This calculation is the production of my arduous study, in this my advanced stage of life ; for having long had unbounded desires to become acquainted with the secrets of nature, I have had to gratify my curiosity herein, through my own assiduous application to Astronomical Study, in which I need not recount to you the many difficulties and disadvantages, which I have had to encounter. 9.

And although I had almost declined to make my calculation for the ensuing year, in consequence of that time which I had allotted therefor, being taken up at the Federal Territory, by the request of Mr. Andrew Ellicott, yet finding myself under several engagements to Printers of this state, to whom I had communicated my design, on my return to my place of residence, I industriously applied myself thereto, which I hope I have accomplished with correctness and accuracy ; a copy of which I have taken the liberty to direct to you, and which I humbly request you will favorably receive ; and although you may have the opportunity of perusing it after its publication, yet I choose to send it to you in manuscript previous thereto, that thereby you might not only have an earlier inspection, but that you might also view it in my own hand writing.10.

And now, Sir, I shall conclude, and subscribe myself, with the most profound respect, Your most obedient humble servant, 11.

BENJAMIN BANNEKER.

Thomas Jefferson's response to Banneker Philadelphia , Aug. 30. 1791.


SIR,

I THANK you, sincerely, for your letter of the 19th instant, and for the Almanac it contained. No body wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men ; and that the appearance of the want of them, is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America. I can add with truth, that no body wishes more ardently to see a good system commenced, for raising the condition, both of their body and mind, to what it ought to be, as far as the imbecility of their present existence, and other circumstances, which cannot be neglected, will admit.

I have taken the liberty of sending your Almanac to Monsieur de Condozett, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and Member of the Philanthropic Society, because I considered it as a document, to which your whole color had a right for their justification, against the doubts which have been entertained of them.

I am with great esteem, Sir,
Your most obedient Humble Servant,
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Untold Story: Slavery In The 20th Century

Hundreds of thousands of African Americans were held in slavery well into the 20th Century. The untold history in America. Antoinette Harrell-genealogist/researcher and Dr. Ron Walters- Director of the African American Leadership Institute reveals their ground breaking research on slavery in the 20th Century Slavery. Listen to Mae Louise Miller a former 20th Century Slave share with the public her life experience as a slave in Mississippi.



Slavery in the 20th Century Part-2


Slavery in the 20th Century Part-3

Dred Scott's Revenge

Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America by Andrew P. Napolitano.
The Declaration of Independence proclaimed America's belief in legal equality and inalienable rights. But American governments legally suspended the free will of blacks for 150 years and then denied blacks equal protection under the law for another 150 years. How did this happen in America? How were the Constitution and laws of the land twisted so as to institutionalize racism? How did it — or will it — end? In his new book Judge Andrew P. Napolitano takes a no-holds-barred look at the role of the government in the denial of freedoms on the basis of race. Juan Williams of NPR, author of Eyes on the Prize and of a biography of Thurgood Marshall, calls it "the best history of the law and race I've ever read." Damon Root and Jason Kuznicki, both of whom have written on the history of race and the law, will comment.

Plantation System in Southern Life (1950) -- Coronet Films

Coronet Films or Coronet Instructional Media Inc. produced and distributed American educational films (propaganda puff pieces). According to Wikipedia, founder David A. Smart "produced instructional short films aimed at young teenagers and high school students....." These films offered social guidance on topics such as dating, family life, courtesy and citizenship....with occasional educational topics such as the solar system and the human body."

The film "Plantation System in Southern Life" (1950) whitewashes the US slave system into a "happy darky" or "benevolent master" narrative. Jim Crow Apartheid gets a clean scrub with the neutral title of "distinct groups."

The contrast of the planter's wealth found in the homes of the planters versus the rows of small cabins that were occupied by the slaves. As you view these pictures you'll note that these slave cabins are still occupied in 1950. In other words, very little had changed in the south post-Civil War on many southern plantations 90 years after emancipation.

Plantation System in Southern Life (1950) - pt1


In Part 2, the narrator notes the three key crops that produced a vast amount of wealth, cotton, tobacco and sugar. The film asks "Did this plantation life influence the modern south? Can we find anything left of the plantation system?"

The film asserts that "freeing of the slaves" and the "great financial burden of the war disrupted the economic system of the south." But, here's the kicker as the narrator notes, that "the plantation system didn't entirely disappear." Then the narrator continues to assert that "the land remained. The source of labor, great numbers of Negroes (descendants of slaves) remained." And of course the obligatory cash crop of "cotton and the demand for cotton remained." And so the plantation system, the film summarizes, "the plantation system in its smaller and more modified way, still remained in 1950."

Most of the wealth still comes from cotton and most of the Negroes are still exploited and subjugated nearly 100 years after emancipation. It's as though time stood still in the south.

Plantation System in Southern Life (1950) - pt2

Monday, August 17, 2009

Harvard University Lecture 6: "The Sentimental Imagination"

Lecture 6: "The Sentimental Imagination" from ASU English on Vimeo.


Discussion of Lydia Maria Child and the scandal of ‘amalgamation’; responses to student questions on Whitman, Lincoln, and Thoreau; antebellum racial phenotypes and pseudo-scientific racism; visual and print culture of the abolitionist movement; stages of slave narrative production; characteristics of slave narratives; background of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and its immense popularity and controversy; Stowe’s religion and conversion experience; James Baldwin’s famous essay on Stowe’s racial stereotyping; definition and rise of literary sentimentalism.

American Protest Literature Lecture Videos (Harvard University) from "Literature and Arts A-86: American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac"

African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier

In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the West, 1528-1990 by Quintard TaylorPublisher Fact Sheet

A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the exploration, settling, & conquest of the territory west of the Mississippi. From its surprising discussions of groups of African Americans wholly absorbed into Native American culture to illustrating how the largely forgotten role of blacks in the West helped contribute to everything from the Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation ruling to the rise of the Black Panther Party, Quintard Taylor fills a major void in American history & reminds us that the African American experience is unlimited by region or social status.


Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr.

Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr.
Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History

Part 1: Antebellum Slavery and Freedom, 1528-1865, Race and Liberty


Part 2: To the Frontier, 1866-1900, Homesteaders, Cowboys and Buffalo Soldiers


Part 3: The Urban Frontier, 1875-1940, African Americans in Cities


Part 4: World War II Era, 1941-1950, Migration and Transformation


Part 5: Into the 21st Century, 1951-2000, The Black West in the Modern Era

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Sky Crawlers Original Soundtrack - SOUND of The Sky Crawlers

The Sky Crawlers Original Soundtrack - SOUND of The Sky Crawlers
The Sky Crawlers Original Soundtrack - SOUND of The Sky Crawlers
Published By : VAP
Release Date : 25 July 2008
Catalog No. : VPCG-84882
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.main theme_opening
2.first sortie
3.sail away (vocal)
4.Foo-ko
5.main theme_memory
6.Mizuki
7.surprise attack
8.drive-by-wire
9.main theme_affair (harp)
10.main theme_Blue fish (orgel)
11.private sortie
12.second sortie
13.night sortie
14.March hare
15.Adler Tag
16.Krakow
17.main theme_affair
18.main theme_blue fish
19.final sortie
20.Teacher
21.main theme_ending

Rozen Maiden Traumend ED Single - Hikari no Rasenritsu

Rozen Maiden Traumend ED Single - Hikari no Rasenritsu
Rozen Maiden Traumend ED Single - Hikari no Rasenritsu
Published By : Geneon Entertainment
Release Date : 23 November 2005
Catalog No. : LHCA-5024
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Hikari no Rasenritsu
2.Utsutsu no Yume
3.Atem
4.Arukana
5.Shiro to Aka
6.Kamp
7.Hikari no Rasenritsu (off Vocal)

Rozen Maiden Traumend OP Single - Seishoujo Ryouiki

Rozen Maiden Traumend OP Single - Seishoujo Ryouiki
Rozen Maiden Traumend OP Single - Seishoujo Ryouiki
Published By : Geneon Entertainment
Release Date : 26 October 2005
Catalog No. : LHCM-1014
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Seishoujo Ryouiki
2.S Jou no Hime ya Kana Kaikon
3.Seishoujo Ryouiki (off Vocal)
4.S Jou no Hime ya Kana Kaikon (off Vocal)

Rozen Maiden Traumend Original Soundtrack

Rozen Maiden Traumend Original Soundtrack
Rozen Maiden Traumend Original Soundtrack
Published By : Geneon Entertainment
Release Date : 27 January 2006
Catalog No. : LHCA-5027
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Seishoujo Ryouiki (TV size)
2.Tanjou
3.Shukumei
4.Shoka
5.Slapstick
6.Funky Dolls
7.Kinshi Suzume
8.Barasuishou
9.Akumu
10.Bara Otome
11.Battle of Crystal
12.I'm not Junk
13.Suishou no Field
14.Madoka (Acoustic Version)
15.Madoka
16.Mebae
17.Enju
18.Laplace
19.Genius Detective
20.Wrong Way
21.Ashita he
22.Hikari no Rasenritsu (TV size)

Red Garden Original Soundtrack

Red Garden Original Soundtrack
Red Garden Original Soundtrack
Published By : wint
Release Date : 17 January 2007
Catalog No. : PCCR-442
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Main Theme ~ Sou de Aru to Negau Kara
2.Kojin no Shi
3.Nasu Koto Toshite
4.Ayumi .. Yamerare Zuni
5.Yowaku, Yowaku
6.Shizuka ni Omou Koto
7.Sono Saki ni Mieta Kara, Zutto Zutto
8.Omoi Omoi, Soko ni ..
9.Soshite Mata, to
10.Eirei
11.Miete Kuru Mono he
12.Seinen no Kao to Akai iro
13.Tsunagari no Houkai
14.Fukanzen Naru Mono
15.Hai iro no Shiawase
16.Konnichiwa Owari Dakara
17.Mie nai Hikari
18.Anata to Ita Kara Mieta Koto
19.Utsukushiku to mo Mitomezu
20.Owari Kara no Ippo
21.Susumu, Soshite Susumu
22.Kireru Ishi
23.Te no Kasanari
24.Akai Niwa
25.Ai ~ Wazuka na Omoide
26.Katsu ~ Mabara na Hikari
27.Kurenai ~ Negai
28.Sumire ~ You to Tomoni
29.Shiro ~ Watashi Tachi no Hibiki

Rakugo Tennyo Oyui OP Single - Sakura Saku

Rakugo Tennyo Oyui OP Single - Sakura Saku
Rakugo Tennyo Oyui OP Single - Sakura Saku
Published By : King Records
Release Date : 8 February 2006
Catalog No. : YFCM-3704
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Sakura Saku
2.Shoujo Tsubaki
3.Yuriiro
4.Sakura Saku (Instrumental)

Rakugo Tennyo Oyui ED Single - Hana Fubuki Koi Fubuki

Rakugo Tennyo Oyui ED Single - Hana Fubuki Koi Fubuki
Rakugo Tennyo Oyui ED Single - Hana Fubuki Koi Fubuki
Published By : King Records
Release Date : 22 February 2006
Catalog No. : YFCM-2706
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Hana Fubuki Koi Fubuki
2.Koi no Hamayuu
3.Hana Fubuki Koi Fubuki (Original Karaoke)
4.Hana Fubuki Koi Fubuki (Original Karaoke)

Monday, August 10, 2009

Utawarerumono Original Soundtrack

Utawarerumono Original Soundtrack
Utawarerumono Original Soundtrack
Published By : Lantis
Release Date : 25 October 2006
Catalog No. : LACA-9068
Number of Discs : 2

Disc 1
Tracklist
1.Tatakai ni Makuake
2.Musou Uta (TV size)
3.Utawarerumono
4.Hakuoro no Theme
5.Chiisana Shuuraku
6.Atatakai Hizashi
7.Eruruu no Theme
8.Yamazato no Onna Tachi
9.Aruruu no Theme
10.Mutikapa
11.Oboro no Theme
12.Yuzuha no Theme
13.Nodoka na Mura
14.Chiisana Shiawase
15.Kyouchou
16.Taiketsu, Soshite Tatakai
17.Benawi no Theme
18.Kurou no Theme
19.Shuuketsu Shita Chikara
20.Onkamiya Mukai
21.Urutori no THeme
22.Kamyu no Theme
23.Koukishin
24.Akaru Ku Hazun de
25.Karera no Theme
26.Touka no Theme
27.Arifureta Kigeki
28.Kakki Aru Machi
29.Tanoshii Odekake
30.Himegimi Taiho Chou
31.Yamiyo Tsukikage
32.Shutsujin
33.Yozora no Bojou
34.Nakama Tachi
35.Fureaitai
36.Kaze ga Fuku Toki

Disc 2
Tracklist
1.Tessen Hitofuri
2.Shoku Ran Mai Tou
3.Senka no Uzu no Naka ni
4.Kuuya no Theme
5.Genjimaru no Theme
6.Utage no Owari
7.Yami ni Uka bu Kage
8.Kunnekamui
9.Sennyuu
10.Senun Tachi Komete
11.Kie Nai Kizu
12.Abu Kamuu no Kyoui
13.Ima wa Shiki Kioku
14.Zettai Zetsumei
15.Toki Houtta Reta Chikara
16.Mutsumi
17.Chinura Reta Tatakai
18.Betsuri
19.Seijaku no Toki
20.Dai Fuuin
21.Nemuri no Toki
22.Takusa Reta Omoi
23.Madoromi no Rinne (TV size)
24.Yume no Owari ni
25.Saioto Ichi
26.Saioto Ni
27.Saioto San
28.Saioto Shi
29.Yokoku Ichi
30.Yokoku Ni
31.Yokoku San

Utawarerumono OP Single - Musou Uta

Utawarerumono OP Single - Musou Uta
Utawarerumono OP Single - Musou Uta
Published By : Lantis
Release Date : 26 April 2006
Catalog No. : LACM-4259
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Musou Uta
2.Hoshi Sou Yakyoku
3.Musou Uta (instrumental)
4.Hoshi Sou Yakyoku (instrumental)

Utawarerumono ED Single - Madoromi no Rinne

Utawarerumono ED Single - Madoromi no Rinne
Utawarerumono ED Single - Madoromi no Rinne
Published By : Lantis
Release Date : 7 June 2006
Catalog No. : LACM-4266
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Madoromi no Rinne
2.Sen no Umi wo Koe te
3.Madoromi no Rinne (off vocal)
4.Sen no Umi wo Koe te (off vocal)

Venus Versus Virus OP Single - Bravin' Bad Brew

Venus Versus Virus OP Single - Bravin' Bad Brew
Venus Versus Virus OP Single - Bravin' Bad Brew
Published By : Geneon Entertainment
Release Date : 24 January 2007
Catalog No. : LHCM-1027
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Bravin' Bad Brew
2.Yume Naru Kodoku
3.Bravin' Bad Brew (instrumental)
4.Yume Naru Kodoku (instrumental)

Venus Versus Virus ED Single - Shijun no Zankoku

Venus Versus Virus ED Single - Shijun no Zankoku
Venus Versus Virus ED Single - Shijun no Zankoku
Published By : Geneon Entertainment
Release Date : 7 February 2007
Catalog No. : LHCM-1028
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Shijun no Zankoku
2.Akai Tobira
3.Shijun no Zankoku (instrumental)
4.Akai Tobira (instrumental)

Witchblade OP Single - XTC

Witchblade OP Single - XTC
Witchblade OP Single - XTC
Published By : wint
Release Date : 24 May 2006
Catalog No. : COCC-15889
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.XTC
2.Kodou -get closer-
3.XTC (Instrumental)
4.Kodou -get closer- (Instrumental)

Witchblade ED Single - Ashita no te

Witchblade ED Single - Ashita no te
Witchblade ED Single - Ashita no te
Published By : wint
Release Date : 28 June 2006
Catalog No. : COCC-15905
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Ashita no te
2.Spring Summer,Fall
3.Ashita no te (Original Karaoke)
4.Spring Summer,Fall (Original Karaoke)

xxxHOLiC Kei OP Single - NOBODY KNOWS

xxxHOLiC Kei OP Single - NOBODY KNOWS
xxxHOLiC Kei OP Single - NOBODY KNOWS
Published By : BMG Japan
Release Date : 14 May 2008
Catalog No. : AUCK-19035
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.NOBODY KNOWS
2.1/3000 Piece
3.Konbini

xxxHOLiC Kei ED Single - Honey Honey feat. AYUSE KOZUE

xxxHOLiC Kei ED Single - Honey Honey feat. AYUSE KOZUE
xxxHOLiC Kei ED Single - Honey Honey feat. AYUSE KOZUE
Published By : BMG Japan
Release Date : 18 June 2008
Catalog No. : BVCR-19736
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Honey Honey feat. AYUSE KOZUE
2.Honey Honey feat. AYUSE KOZUE (instrumental)
3.Honey Honey -Live Version-

Sunday, August 9, 2009

You're Under Arrest Full Throttle OP Single - Mighty Buddy

You're Under Arrest Full Throttle OP Single - Mighty Buddy
You're Under Arrest Full Throttle OP Single - Mighty Buddy
Published By : Victor Entertainment
Release Date : 7 November 2007
Catalog No. : VTCL-35004
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Mighty Buddy
2.Hayaku Koi Koi Rekkaasha
3.Mighty Buddy (AAkara)
4.Mighty Buddy (CHINOkara)
5.Mighty Buddy (Original Karaoke)
6.Hayaku Koi Koi Rekkaasha (Original Karaoke)

You're Under Arrest Full Throttle ED Single - 1/2

You're Under Arrest Full Throttle ED Single - 1/2
You're Under Arrest Full Throttle ED Single - 1/2
Published By : Victor Entertainment
Release Date : 21 November 2007
Catalog No. : VTCL-35009
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.1/2
2.Suna no Ue no Dolphin
3.1/2 (without vocal)
4.Suna no Ue no Dolphin (without vocal)

Yotsunoha Original Soundtrack

Yotsunoha Original Soundtrack
Yotsunoha Original Soundtrack
Published By : Geneon Entertainment
Release Date : 28 March 2008
Catalog No. : GNCA-1159
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Koi Suru Kioku (Short Ver.)
2.Yuuhi
3.Hisashiburi no Gakuen
4.Kieta Time Capsule
5.Saikai
6.Asa no Fuukei
7.Wakare no Asa
8.Gakuen Seikatsu
9.Kokoro no Ibara
10.Chiisana Shiawase
11.Yuukika no Nichijou
12.Osananajimi
13.Minna no Kimochi
14.Todokanai Omoi
15.Fuan
16.Shissou
17.Urei Naki Hibi
18.Sugiyuku Jikan
19.Suki Dayo
20.Ienakatta Koto
21.Kizuna
22.Futari no Kyori
23.Omoide no Naka de
24.Mirai he
25.Negai (Short Ver.)

Zipang Original Soundtrack

Zipang Original Soundtrack
Zipang Original Soundtrack
Published By : Marvelous Entertainment Inc.
Release Date : 25 March 2005
Catalog No. : MJCD-20025
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.MEIN TEEMA
2.'Mirai' TEEMA
3.'Rengou Kantai' TEEMA
4.'Souka' TEEMA
5.'Kuuchuusen' TEEMA 'Shutsugen'
6.'Kuuchuusen' TEEMA 'Sentou Kaishi'
7.Betsuri
8.Aishuu
9.Yamamoto Isoroku
10.Teikoku Nihon
11.Senkyou
12.Kimitsu Kaigi
13.Kiki
14.Gourei
15.Taiji
16.Shinnen
17.Kunou
18.Fukyouwaon
19.Kyoukan
20.Mayoi
21.Yuujou
22.Heion
23.Kazoku
24.GADARUKANARU
25.Sakusen Kaigi
26.Shutsujinmae
27.Kaisou
28.Kibou
29.Senryouchi
30.Mikata
31.Seishin
32.Beigun JAZU KURABU
33.Daidan'en Sentou Kumikyoku
34.Kumikyoku Yochou ~ Senritsu
35.Sentou 'Mirai'
36.Rashinban (TV SAIZU)
37.Kimi wo Miteiru (TV SAIZU)

Zero no Tsukaima ED Single - Honto no Kimochi

Zero no Tsukaima ED Single - Honto no Kimochi
Zero no Tsukaima ED Single - Honto no Kimochi
Published By : King Records
Release Date : 9 August 2006
Catalog No. : KDCM-74
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Honto no Kimochi
2.Eien wo Sagashitai
3.Honto no Kimochi (Off vocal)
4.Eien wo Sagashitai (Off vocal)

Zero no Tsukaima OP Single - First Kiss

Zero no Tsukaima OP Single - First Kiss
Zero no Tsukaima OP Single - First Kiss
Published By : King Records
Release Date : 26 July 2006
Catalog No. : KDCM-72
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.First Kiss
2.Treasure
3.First Kiss (Off vocal)
4.Treasure (Off vocal)

Zero no Tsukaima Original Soundtrack

Zero no Tsukaima Original Soundtrack
Zero no Tsukaima Original Soundtrack
Published By : King Records
Release Date : 23 August 2006
Catalog No. : KDCA-76
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.First kiss ~TV size~
2.Gandaaruvu
3.Good Friends
4.Yokan
5.Peaceful Time
6.Seiso
7.Cheerful Lady
8.Louise
9.Nice Days
10.Hajirai
11.Sensual Fire
12.Spy
13.Fuan
14.Soil Monster
15.Akujo
16.Nasakenai Hibi
17.Baka ni Furarete
18.Battle in Bar
19.Amorous Old Man
20.Haunted House
21.Koi no Yokan
22.Akogare
23.Ketsui
24.Yuuki
25.Himitsu
26.Crisis
27.Higher Sky
28.Futatsu no Tsuki
29.Yasashisa
30.Happy Things
31.Passed Away
32.Setsunai Omoi
33.Kiretsu
34.Empty
35.Noble
36.Inori
37.Butoukai
38.Palace
39.Common People
40.Honto no Kimochi ~TV size~

TalesWeaver Original Soundtrack

TalesWeaver Original Soundtrack
TalesWeaver Original Soundtrack
Published By : Marvelous Entertainment
Release Date : 25 August 2006
Catalog No. : MJCD-20071
Number of Discs : 4

Disc 1
Tracklist
1.Till the End of Infinity
2.The Tales (ESTi's Fairytale Remix)
3.Magical Autumn
4.Is This 2Step?
5.Motivity
6.Brand New Spring is Coming
7.March of the Hero
8.Sweet Place
9.Waltz of the Birds
10.Four Thousand Years
11.Apparition
12.The Place Forbidden to Visit by Adults
13.Make a Break to This!
14.A Cloudy World
15.Take a Step Forward
16.EarCatcher ~ Wishing
17.Fortune Message
18.Beach Wandering Boys
19.Come With Happiness
20.Walking On Your Own
21.Dawn, and the Moment of Awakening
22.Apparition Re-Mix
23.A Tiny Chest Which Cannot Be Opened
24.Groovin' Tonight (Arrange Ver.)
25.Aquabelle
26.Steppers On Line
27.F.M.7
28.Tropical Tripper
29.Urban Lazy Groove Goes On
30.Orange Garage
31.Reminiscence (Radiomorphose Edit)
32.Hotel Inside
33.Dis-apparition
34.Battle in the Tomb of Hero (Z80 Mix)
35.Stage Clear
36.Apparition (Orchestra Ver.)

Disc 2
Tracklist
1.Tales are About to be Weaved
2.Make U the Weaver
3.Close to the Weaver
4.First Run
5.Jungle Jungle
6.Tomb of Honor
7.Joke
8.Autumn Leaves
9.Dark
10.Attack
11.Dance ~ Celtic Edit
12.Good Evening, Narvik
13.Sweet Jungle
14.Daybreak
15.Rocking on a Heaven's Door
16.True Midnight
17.Song of Beach
18.Serious Conspiracy
19.Surprise Rush
20.Good Morning Tian
21.Real World
22.The Good Old Days
23.Yeah!
24.A Song Called Happiness
25.Magnolia
26.Keep Yourself
27.Dawn
28.Delight
29.Chonan Gang
30.In Peace
31.Success!
32.Not Ended Fantasy (Real-GT Ver.)

Disc 3
Tracklist
1.This Tales (Japanese Server Special Ver.)
2.Past
3.Blue Coral
4.Fight Master
5.Second Run
6.EarCatch ~We Want More~
7.Deadly Mansion
8.It's Not Over Yet
9.Money Money Money
10.Big Tick
11.Just Climbing
12.Laputa
13.Night Breeze
14.Bambooming
15.Dive
16.Red Eyes
17.Celtician
18.Sentence
19.So Cool
20.Arab Dealer
21.Black Snake
22.Chroyama
23.Final Killer
24.Not Ended Fantasy (Staff Ver.)
25.Into the Divine
26.Beyond (English Ver.)

Disc 4
Tracklist
1.We Wish Your Merry Christmas (TW Ver.)
2.Have Yourself a Merry Christmas ~ White Leaf
3.Feliz Navidad
4.Bloody Bloody Silent Night
5.Park's Life (Paku's Ver.)
6.East Green Wind
7.Shadow Claws
8.Crystal Shining
9.Tower
10.Philaion
11.Cursed Mansion
12.City of Trade
13.In Grief
14.Gate to an Ancient Civilization
15.Flag Tournament
16.White Fantasia
17.Ice Candy Tree
18.Nymph's Allurement
19.Wild Spirit
20.Nocturn for Eltibo
21.The Depth of Winter
22.Indelight
23.My Love
24.That Which Exists In Order to Forget the Dreams of Yesterday
25.Weaver Once Again
26.Beyond (Korean Ver.)

Tales of Vesperia Original Soundtrack

Tales of Vesperia Original Soundtrack
Tales of Vesperia Original Soundtrack
Published By : Warner Music Japan
Release Date : 20 August 2008
Catalog No. : WPCL-10491~4
Number of Discs : 4

Disc 1
Tracklist
1.The Dawn of Departure
2.Trends of the World
3.The Story Begins
4.Omen
5.Unfulfilled Feelings
6.Graceful Moment
7.A Young Man's Selfish Daily Life
8.Unexpected Dangers
9.The Battle Opens Fire
10.Victory Cry
11.Loyalty to the Sword and Armor
12.Exposed Conspiracy
13.The Situation Wriggles Amply
14.Madness
15.Twisted Sword Light
16.Uninvited Circumstances
17.Morning Star Serenade
18.Comfortable Journey
19.An Immovable Protective Wall
20.Chaotic Remains of Fire
21.Flickering Taboo
22.Betting in this Bout
23.Evening Requiem
24.Pleasant Intrigue
25.Miracle in the Flower Street
26.Examinating the Flowers
27.Magicians of the Shadow's Depths
28.The Sorceress's Bad Mood
29.Sorcery Weapon, A Millennia of Sleep
30.Crossing the Small Hills
31.Around the World

Disc 2
Tracklist
1.Full of Unrest
2.Bonds
3.A Heart Excited by the Sound of Waves
4.Ruins of Soaking Rain
5.The Beautiful People's Progress and Harmony
6.United Oath
7.Peacefully at the Woodlands of Thick Grass
8.Break Through! Gasphalost
9.The Might of the Giant Fort
10.The Severe Morning Star Departs
11.Burn More, Fighting Spirit
12.Flawless Victory!
13.The Villains' Conspiracy and the Mechanical Tower
14.Minor Ocean's Kick Up
15.Tender Sunlight
16.Nightmares Reflected in the Mirror
17.Under the Warriors's Flag
18.Malice Lurking in the Den
19.The Seductive Water Sound's Whisper
20.Yellow Sand Arabesque
21.A Night when the Cactus Flower Blooms
22.Strong Foes Blocking the Way
23.Beyond the Mirage
24.Duke
25.Full Moon and Morning Star ~ from 'Ring a Bell'
26.Wise one
27.Tragic Decision
28.An Immoral Banquet Softly

Disc 3
Tracklist
1.The Forfeited Stormy Mountain
2.Judith, Portrait of Solitude
3.Fly, Cross Day and Night
4.Brilliant Life, Raising Light
5.The Old Folk Drift in the Sky
6.Echoes of the Hollow Old Days
7.The Pursued Holy Core
8.Counting Months and Months
9.Sea Pursuit
10.Chance for a Big Reversal
11.Explosive Progressing Menace
12.Main Armament Firing, Seconds Before
13.Omen of Destruction
14.To Beyond the Devastating Aer
15.Estelle's Despair
16.Diamond Dust
17.Ceremony of the Air (Deinnomoth)
18.A Truth Hidden in the Shadows of the World
19.Heart's Cry
20.Source of the Gushing Out Silence
21.The Severe Morning Star and the Full Moon Child
22.The World Abducted by that Finger
23.Cutting Off the Dark Ambitions
24.Seal of Destruction
25.Loss
26.Yuri's Slump
27.A Bath Heartly Welcome
28.Playtime
29.Playing with the Wind ~ from 'Kaze no Klonoa'
30.Fight, Our Beraboh Man ~ from 'Chouzetsu Rinjin Beraboh Man'
31.Shadows Driving Underground ~ from 'Metro Cross'
32.Maybe I Could Do It
33.Fly, Baul
34.Serious Match!
35.Labyrinth of a Faded Past
36.Encounter with the Unknown

Disc 4
Tracklist
1.The World Saviors' Determination
2.Tenacity
3.Mysterious Fallen Forest
4.Indomitable Fighting Spirit
5.Wind Roaring in the Ravine
6.In Pathetic Silence
7.Starting Up
8.Those Who Lost Their Protection
9.Echoing Breath
10.Scattering Sparks
11.Ruined Insignificance that Goes Through the Heavens
12.Aim for the Top
13.Unexchanged Feelings ~ from 'Ring a Bell'
14.Hidden Power of the Ancient Tower City
15.When Determination Strikes
16.The Last Battle
17.A Once-in-Lifetime Battle to Death
18.Their Resolution ~ from 'Ring a Bell'
19.Responding to the Voice
20.Shaken Heart
21.Tie the Echoing Voice's Power
22.Soaring to a New World
23.The Story Ends, The Travel Begins ~ from 'Ring a Bell'

Tales of the Tempest Original Soundtrack

Tales of the Tempest Original Soundtrack
Tales of the Tempest Original Soundtrack
Published By : Avex Trax
Release Date : 21 February 2007
Catalog No. : AVCD-23187/8
Number of Discs : 2

Disc 1
Tracklist
1.Encounter
2.Difficult situation
3.Confrontation
4.Sincerity is solemn
5.As for me, national
6.Liberation
7.Different world
8.Grassy plain
9.Desert
10.Capital of Ramorn
11.Frozen ground
12.Feln
13.Nals
14.Zhanna
15.Business prosperity
16.Black forest
17.Are mountain
18.Underground waterway
19.The root of various crimes
20.Sailing
21.A crisis it approaches, and to come
22.The night of a plot
23.Reda
24.Enemy's raid
25.Suffering
26.The opponent's side before
27.All was over
28.A day of an opening
29.The new departure
30.VS (Game Edit Ver.)
31.VS (Game Edit Ver.)

Disc 2
Tracklist
1.Opening
2.What Just Flew By?
3.Are They Really Twins?
4.A Pretty Reason
5.Because it's the DS
6.Flower of Memories
7.Ending

Tales of Symphonia Original Soundtrack

Tales of Symphonia Original Soundtrack
Tales of Symphonia Original Soundtrack
Published By : King Records
Release Date : 27 October 2004
Catalog No. : KICA-1337~40
Number of Discs : 4

Disc 1
Tracklist
1.Tales of Symphonia
2.A Prologue
3.Old Familiar Scent of Iselia
4.Lloyd
5.Collet
6.Genius
7.Refill
8.Kratos
9.Unsatisfied Desire
10.Standing the Pain
11.Overcome
12.Dike, I'm Home
13.Talk About Sylvarant
14.The Land of Sylvarant
15.Full Force
16.Won the Battle
17.Rest of the Heart
18.Desert Flower
19.The Struggle to Survive
20.Rovers
21.Along the Beach
22.Harbor Town
23.Town of a Wind and Ruins
24.Untold Despair
25.Water Symphony
26.Water Symphony -despair-
27.Have a Sweet Dream

Disc 2
Tracklist
1.Romany Caravan
2.Venturers' Colony
3.Search a Seal ~Sylvarant~
4.Escape From Enemy Base
5.Lloyd ~ Ocarina Ver. ~
6.Collet ~It is Sad~
7.Refill -Relical Model-
8.The Tower
9.Confusion
10.An Appearance
11.Delightful Day
12.Behind Us
13.In the Ashes
14.Deep Fear
15.On the Very Edge!
16.Off-Key
17.Moonlight
18.A Wood Carving Star
19.Shining Dew
20.The Grudge
21.Fatalize
22.On the Tight Rope
23.New One World
24.On the Hill the Night
25.Floating in the Air
26.Nobody Knows

Disc 3
Tracklist
1.Far From Our World
2.The Kingdom City of Meltokio
3.Darkside of Meltokio
4.A Selfish Want
5.Tethe Alla Castle
6.Presea
7.Zelos
8.Walking on Tethe Alla
9.Like a Glint of Light
10.Academic City
11.Secret From the Blue Sky
12.Regal
13.Trip on the Ship
14.shihna
15.Shinobi Life
16.Anchoret
17.Underground Passage
18.Dry Trail
19.In a Shadowy Woods
20.Deepest Woods
21.Dance in the Sunshine
22.A Snow Light
23.Aviators ~Rhea-Bird~
24.Rest of the Heart -Sanctuary-
25.Serenade of Elves
26.Forest of the Treant
27.Firing
28.A Break Down
29.Zelos ~Serious Arrange~
30.Mitos
31.Encount with Renegade
32.Eternal Oath

Disc 4
Tracklist
1.Judgment of Mana
2.Spirits Whispers
3.Fun with Idol!
4.Fighting of the Spirit
5.Search a Seal ~Tethe Alla~
6.The Law of the Battle
7.The End of a Thought
8.Keep Your Guard Up!
9.Beat the Angel
10.Edge of Nowhere
11.A Sign
12.Be Invoked
13.Derris-Kharlan ~Appear~
14.Derris-Kharlan ~Fear~
15.Derris-Kharlan ~Shine~
16.Derris-Kharlan ~Requiem~
17.Keen-Edged Blade
18.Last Battle ~Will~
19.Last Battle ~Decision~
20.Hidden Sorrow
21.It Can Waver and Fight
22.Final Destination
23.Harmony
24.Revival
25.Ending Staff Roll
26.Thank For All

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Tales of Rebirth Original Soundtrack

Tales of Rebirth Original Soundtrack
Tales of Rebirth Original Soundtrack
Published By : King Records
Release Date : 26 January 2005
Catalog No. : KICA-1353~6
Number of Discs : 4

Disc 1
Tracklist
1.Tales of Rebirth B
2.Prologue A
3.Prologue B
4.The scratch on ice
5.Desperate battle
6.Relief
7.A certain day...
8.Strainer air
9.Scutum - cruel
10.Dark seed
11.Sulz
12.Icy edge
13.Battle organization
14.Victory A
15.Ginnar troupe
16.Heart rest
17.Suspicion
18.Scutum - unflappable
19.Alvan Mountains
20.Annie in the Mist
21.Eugene
22.Minal
23.True drop
24.Forest Labyrinth
25.Here and there
26.Game over

Disc 2
Tracklist
1.Tales of Rebirth A
2.Petnadjanka - silence
3.Iron manufacture - jungle
4.Reckless Tytree
5.Optimist
6.Spring sunlight
7.Rafter
8.Danger!
9.Sannytown
10.Hilda's True Identity
11.The world without a window
12.Karez
13.Anikamal - distrust
14.Oasis
15.Anikamal
16.Climbers' Cavern
17.Babilograd
18.Scutum - fang
19.A comfortable wave
20.Harbor
21.Balka
22.The subway in Balka
23.Like a glint
24.Geyorkias

Disc 3
Tracklist
1.Proposition
2.Petnadjanka
3.Holy Beast Eephon
4.Mesechina Cavern
5.Dogfight
6.Victory B
7.Razilda
8.Ruins
9.Ancient spirit
10.The trial
11.Pipista
12.Holy Beast Fenia
13.Kyogen
14.Auction
15.Nolzen
16.Tower of Nereg
17.Weigh anchor!
18.Belsas
19.Belsas - another side
20.Speech A
21.Speech B
22.Speech C
23.Soaring Shaorune
24.With Shaorune
25.Mocrado Village
26.Holy Beast Gilione
27.World Purification
28.Natural Disaster
29.Dream game

Disc 4
Tracklist
1.Lenpao Sky Garden
2.Amusement park
3.Scutum - intertwine
4.Scutum - decisive battle
5.Mount Sovereign
6.Milhaust
7.The edge of an oath
8.Zilva
9.Filled insanity
10.Ruined Ones
11.Yuris' Realm
12.Destruction
13.The die is cast
14.Victory C
15.Will
16.Final episode
17.Guidance of the moon
18.Sealed
19.The answer
20.Epilogue A
21.Epilogue B

Tales of Phantasia Original Soundtrack Complete Version

Tales of Phantasia Original Soundtrack Complete Version
Tales of Phantasia Original Soundtrack Complete Version
Published By : Victor Entertainment
Release Date : 21 May 1999
Catalog No. : VICL-60369/70
Number of Discs : 2

Disc 1
Tracklist
1.Decisive
2.The Stream of Time
3.Defiance
4.Harmonious Moment
5.Hydropolis
6.Vigorous Town
7.Serene Weather
8.Mystic Forest
9.Freeze
10.Underground Way
11.Mint
12.Desolate Road
13.Sylph
14.Retaliation
15.Morlia Gallery
16.Field of Sunset
17.Martel
18.Arche
19.Tasteful
20.Good Wine Makes a Good Blood
21.Lake on Ymir
22.Triumph
23.Abyss of Thor
24.Open Fire
25.Threatening Sky
26.Aviators
27.Burning Tower
28.Perverse Religion
29.Fulfill Mission
30.Hurry Up
31.Be Absentminded
32.Take Up the Cross
33.Go a Step Further
34.Overcome Difficulties
35.Conclusion
36.Who is Good or Evil?
37.Raising a Curtain
38.The Second Act
39.Final Act

Disc 2
Tracklist
1.Olive Village
2.Awakening
3.Euclid
4.Premonition
5.As Time Goes On
6.Penetrate
7.Emergency
8.Resurrection
9.Dark Cave
10.Bright Moonlight Night
11.Oasis
12.Mid Galds
13.Ary
14.Castle of the Dhaos
15.Forest of the Treant
16.Unicorn
17.Cave of Illusion
18.Biting Cold
19.Mysterious Japon
20.Go Over Adversity
21.Fighting of the Spirit
22.Suzu
23.Contract
24.Honor
25.Ah my God...
26.Tomorrow is a Holiday
27.I Miss You...
28.Good-By Friends
29.Recovery
30.Lonely Twilight
31.Harvest Festival
32.Piano Lesson 6
33.Rally X Round Start
34.Rally X
35.Rally X Round Clear
36.Ridge Racer
37.Fighting of the Spirit (Arranged Version)
38.Happy Happy!

Tales of Legendia Original Soundtrack

Tales of Legendia Original Soundtrack
Tales of Legendia Original Soundtrack
Published By : Avex Trax
Release Date : 24 August 2005
Catalog No. : AVCD-17741~3
Number of Discs : 3

Disc 1
Tracklist
1.TAO -game version-
2.melfes ~ Shining Blue
3.The Meeting Place Is the Fountain Plaza
4.Forest of No Return
5.A Cheerful Bandit
6.Sunlight Filtering Through the Trees
7.March
8.Spinning Thoughts, Bound Hands
9.The Legendary Sorceror
10.It's Not A Bluff
11.To Deliver the Feelings
12.Ancient Ship
13.Tomorrow Will Surely Be Sunny
14.Enemy Attack
15.Beyond That Hill
16.Battle Artist
17.Seeking Victory
18.Sea of Rage
19.Between Memories and Hope
20.my tales

Disc 2
Tracklist
1.A Firefly's Light
2.Whisper of the Crystal
3.Advancing Towards 12 O'Clock
4.Chasing Shirly
5.Short Circuit
6.Stella
7.Let's Go!
8.Big Sister Honwaka
9.Land of Peace
10.Run in the Middle of the Storm
11.TAO -melfes version-
12.The Bird Chiprs, I Sing
13.Delkes Black Wings
14.Thank You
15.Looming Crisis
16.Guiding Star
17.A Flower's Name
18.Funeral March
19.Let's Talk
20.The Prayers Become Power
21.hotarubi
22.TALES

Disc 3
Tracklist
1.The Traveller's Rest
2.An Important Day ~ The Strong Bond With Comrades

Tales of Innocence Original Soundtrack Another Innocence

Tales of Innocence Original Soundtrack Another Innocence
Tales of Innocence Original Soundtrack Another Innocence
Published By : Victor Entertainment
Release Date : 19 December 2007
Catalog No. : VTCL-60013
Number of Discs : 1

Tracklist
1.Follow the Nightingale (Game Edit Version)
2.The End of a Nightmare, But Still in the Middle of a Dream
3.Creation of Heaven and Earth
4.Breaking Through the Encirclement
5.The Scene of the Rocking Chair and the Cat
6.Path Which the Wheel Track Continues
7.This Advancement Will Not Be Stopped
8.Break Through with the Sword
9.The Captives
10.Death Approaches from Behind
11.At the Knee of the Saint
12.Chantey of the Iron Rust
13.Break the Sword to Pieces
14.Picnic in the Cloudy Weather
15.Memory of the Music Box
16.The Waterdrop Drills Through Time
17.The March of the Departing Shipmen
18.Reverse White Waves
19.Investigation of Vicissitude
20.Gaze Upon the Crimson
21.Cross Over the Crimson Lotus
22....have a good rest time
23.Welcome to the Jungle
24.Peer Into the Abyss
25.On the Desert Island
26.Releasing the Sword From Here On
27.Ideal Weather for a Walk
28.Tears of the Perplexed Souls
29.The Undeniable Truth
30.The Smell of Gunpowder on the Hill
31.Discord of Heaven and Earth
32.Snow Begins to Fall Outside the Window
33.Ruler of the Silver Ridge
34.Silver Fox's Dream of Digging Coal in the North
35.Into the Blue Sky
36.Sky Fantasia
37.Impending Sadness
38.The Wind Blows, The Earth Embraces My Body
39.Hymn for the God of Creation
40.Approaching the Summit
41.Before the Demise
42.say goodbye & good day (Game Edit Version)