From My Bondage and My Freedom, how do Frederick Douglass's words on spirituals affect your political understanding of slavery today?

Douglass
makes it clear that the employment of spirituals is vitally important to understanding the slave
condition.  On multiple levels, the spirituals helped to bring out much of what modern
understanding of slavery is.  Douglass makes clear that the spiritual was one of the few ways
that the slave can give voice to their predicament.  The immense suffering and hardship endured
in slavery was a...