From the article: Queen Esther is a singer, songwriter, actor, producer, playwright, and librettist. But on her new album, she’s a historian, too. Blackbirding is an impressive and impassioned plunge into the events and circumstances surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg, conceived and composed substantially during an artist’s residency at the Pennsylvania battlefield in 2020. Through a dozen songs that deftly blend country, blues, jazz, and soul, Queen Esther examines a dark and violent time in America, probing myths and assumptions about the war, and bringing the atrocities inflicted upon Black residents to the forefront. The songs are snappy, the subject matter sobering, and the delivery suitably fierce.

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