id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
elements-8814	Nista, Danielle	A Vigorous Affirmation of Life: Slaves in the Face of Dehumanization	2015	12	.pdf	application/pdf	8480	445	76	Although masters did try to appropriate slave songs and dances for their own uses, slaves still ended up with the upper hand, especially through their music, as seen in the case of the slaves sold south in Brown’s narrative. One important piece of the development of slave dances was the avoidance of crossing one’s feet be- cause “dancin’ ain’t sinful iffen de foots ain’t crossed.	cache/elements-8814.pdf	txt/elements-8814.txt