| Title | Artist | Label | Year |
| soundbite: the whipping of January | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| Slavery Days | Burning Spear | Island Records | 1975 |
| soundbite: various slaves speaking | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| Dry Your Tears Africa (Reprise) | John Williams | Dreamworks Records | 1997 |
| soundbite: stealing Africans from Africa | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| I'm Talking 'Bout Freedom | Syl Johnson | Twilight Records | 1970 |
| Fanfare To The Common Man | Aaron Copland | London Records | 1981 |
| soundbite: pre-amble & history | read by Annette Walker | not applicable | 2004 |
| soundbite: introduction | read by Playthell Benjamin | not applicable | 2004 |
| soundbite: on board a slave ship | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| What Kind Of Land | Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon | Ryko Records | 1998 |
| soundbite: William Lynch's "How To Make A Slave" | read by Simon Loekle | not applicable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: a blind slave | Papa Dallas | unavailable | unavailable |
| African Spirit | Nasio Fontaine | Higher Love Records | 2003 |
| Black Seeds intro | The Main Ingredient | RCA Records | 1971 |
| soundbite re: slavery | Fountain Hughes | unavailable | unavailable |
| Heritage Of A Blackman | Sam Dees | Atlantic Records | 1998 |
| soundbite re: slavery | read by James Earl Jones | unavailable | unavailable |
| We'll Keep On Struggling | Oku Onuora | Zola Zola Records | 1993 |
| soundbite re: Josephine Smith | read by Debbie Allen | unavailable | unavailable |
| Oh Lord Why Lord/Prayer | Parliament | HDH Records | 1972 |
| Canon In "D" | Pachelbel | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: slavery | Laura Smally | unavailable | unavailable |
| Born Dead | J.B. Lenoir | L & R Records | 1965 |
| soundbite: a Captain speaks about his cargo | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| Sons Of Slaves | Junior Delgado | Upsetter Records | 1977 |
| soundbite: Frederick Douglas' "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?" [excerpt] | read by Ossie Davis | unavailable | unavailable |
| Steal Away To Jesus | Kinsey West | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: sorrow songs | read by Playthell Benjamin | not applicable | unavailable |
| soundbite: the selling of Kizzy by her master | John Amos and Madge Sinclair | unavailable | unavailable |
| Crazy Bald Heads | Bob Marley & The Wailers | unavailable | unavailable |
| 40 Lashes | Wynton Marsalis | Columbia Records | 1997 |
| soundbite: remembering slavery | Laura Smally | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: Rose Williams being forced to mate with Rufus | read by Jena Jones | unavailable | unavailable |
| Dambala | Nina Simone | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: Toby & Kunte | Louis Gossett Jr. and John Amos | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: slaves slipping off | Laura Smally | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: castration | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite: remembering slavery | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| Black Woman | Judy Mowatt | Tuff Gong Records | 1978 |
| soundbite re: slaves praying for their masters | Laura Smally | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: Caroline Johnson Harris getting married | read by Esther Rolle | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: Arnold Gragston | read by Clifton Davis | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite: slave wives getting whipped | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| Lord I Need You [excerpt] | The Williams Brothers | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: slave conditions | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite: we got to remember the old ways | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| African Children | Aswad | CBS Records | 1981 |
| soundbite: Abraham Lincoln's interest in saving the union | read by Simon Loekle | not applicable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: escaping slavery | read by Debbie Allen | unavailable | unavailable |
| Lift Every Voice | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go | Curtis Mayfield | Curtom Records | 1970 |
| soundbite re: families being reunited | read by Esther Rolle | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite: remembering slavery | Harriet Smith | unavailable | unavailable |
| Buffalo Soldier | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Island Records | 1983 |
| Freedom In The Air | Bernice Johnson Reagon | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 1997 |
| soundbite re: William I. Johnson Jr. | read by Clifton Davis | unavailable | unavailable |
| Give Us A Flag | Richie Havens | Columbia Records | 1991 |
| soundbite re: Sarah DeBroh | read by Melba Moore | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: Tom Hester | read by Louis Gossett Jr. | unavailable | unavailable |
| Freedom | The Golden Gate Quartet & Josh White | Bridge Records | 2002 |
| soundbite: spreading the news that the slaves were freed | Laura Smally | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite: figuring out what to do with new found freedom | Fountain Hughes | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: Robert Glen | read by James Earl Jones | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: life after being freed | Issa Mosley | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: slaves being in debt even after being freed | Laura Smally | unavailable | unavailable |
| Message From The Black Man | The Temptations | Gordy Records | 1969 |
| soundbite re: her husband, Jim Smith, being killed | Harriet Smith | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite: saving money and paying for items with cash | Fountain Hughes | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite: Frederick Douglas Prelude | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite: Frederick Douglas' "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?" [excerpt] | read by Ossie Davis | unavailable | unavailable |
| God Bless America For What | Swamp Dogg | Charly Records | 1991 |
| Stand Up And Be Counted [excerpt] | Good Ole South | unavailable | unavailable |
| The Klan [excerpt] | L.A. Carnival | unavailable | unavailable |
| Kajun Ku Klux Klan [excerpt] | Johnny Rebel | unavailable | unavailable |
| Ku Klux Klan | Steel Pulse | Island Records | 1978 |
| soundbite: Your Stars And Bars | Jolivette Anderson | Jaja Records | 2000 |
| Dixie/Strange Fruit | Rene Marie | Max Jazz Records | 2001 |
| soundbite: Ida B. Wells-Barnett's "Lynching, Our National Crime" | read by Ruby Dee | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite re: Dred Scott case | Mumia Abu-Jamal | unavailable | unavailable |
| Lift Every Voice/Get Up And Stand Up For Your Rights | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable |
| soundbite: epilogue | Terry Wilson | not applicable | unavailable |