Schiavizzare per intero lo spirito di un uomo è impossibile, la sua creatività non si ferma, rompe le catene ed evade in forme d'arte come, per esempio, la musica. Quella che segue è una brevissima discografia di riferimento di alcuni generi musicali scaturiti da condizioni di schiavitù.
JAZZ
Billie Holiday 16 MOST REQUESTED SONGS (Legacy Recordings)
Django Reinhardt ANTHOLOGY 1934-1937 (Cleopatra)
Dizzie Gillespie ABSOLUTELY THE BEST (Fuel 200 Records)
Ella Fitzgerald ELLA GOLD (ALL HER GREATEST HITS) (Universal Jazz)
Dexter Gordon THE BEST OF DEXTER GORDON: THE BLUE NOTE YEARS (Blue Note) John Coltrane COLTRANE JAZZ (Rhino Records) Miles Davis GREATEST HITS (Legacy)
GOSPEL
The Soul Stirrers WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN (Universal Special Products)
The Sounds of Blackness THE EVOLUTION OF GOSPEL (Perspective Records)
The Staple Singers GREATEST HITS (Fantasy Records)
The Zion Harmonizers BEST OF NEW ORLEANS GOSPEL: TRADITIONAL...(Mardi Gras Records)
Dorothy Norwood GOLDEN CLASSICS (Collectables)
Vern Gosdin THE GOSPEL ALBUM (Music Mill)
BLUES
Robert Johnson THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS [BOX] (Legacy Recordings)
Billie Holiday BILLIE'S BLUES (3CD) (Delta)
Bessie Smith THE ESSENTIAL BESSIE SMITH (Legacy Recordings)
B.B. King SINGIN' THE BLUES/THE BLUES (Point Blanc)
John Lee Hooker THE VERY BEST OF (Rhino Records)
Lonnie Johnson BLUES AND BALLADS (Nuevos Med)
Muddy Waters THE COMPLETE PLANTATION RECORDINGS...(Chess)
Otis Spann THE BEST OF THE VANGUARD YEARS (Vanguard)
Artisti Vari BEFORE THE BLUES: EARLY AMERICAN BLACK MUSIC...V.1 (Yazoo)
Stevie Ray Vaughan TEXAS FLOOD (Legacy Recordings)
REGGAE
Bob Marley & The Wailers LEGEND: THE BEST OF BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
Bob Marley SONGS OF FREEDOM [BOX] (Island Records)
Gregory Isaacs MY NUMBER ONE (Rounder Records)
The Lone Ranger ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DUB (Hartbeat Select)
Larry Marshall PRESENTING LARRY MARSHALL (Hartbeat Select)
Madness ULTIMATE COLLECTION (Hip - O Records)
Artisti Vari REBEL MUSIC (Trojan - Cityhall)
SALSA
Artisti Vari LO MEJOR DE LA SALSA (Orfeon)
Ruben Blades & Seis del Solar GREATEST HITS (Wea Latina)
Artisti Vari THE ROYALTY OF SALSA (Rmm)