The songs and spirituals of the American Negro are recognized as unique and valuable contributions to the world. What few people have known, however, is that the Negro spirituals and songs of the antebellum South were more than simply musical expression. They were, in Dr. Fisher's words, the "oral historical documents" of a people. As decoded by Dr. Fisher, the spirituals reveal data respecting their authors, their dates, their places of origin, their plans for escape, and their protests against slavery.
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THE chief concern of African music was to recite the history of the people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
army cross ober, yer tole, slave songs, plantation missionaries, variant song, unpublished term paper, dis body, gwine home, seaboard slave states, yellow gal, original singer, done wid, cry holy, round the corn, white spirituals, dat day Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, South Carolina, Civil War, Port Royal Islands, North America, Nat Turner, North Carolina, American Colonization Society, West Indies, Colonel Higginson, Deep River, Army Life, Black Regiment, Chapel Hill, Sierra Leone, Southampton County, African Negroes, New Orleans, South America, African Repository, American Negroes, Becca Lawton, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Helena Island New!
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THE chief concern of African music was to recite the history of the people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
army cross ober, yer tole, slave songs, plantation missionaries, variant song, unpublished term paper, dis body, gwine home, seaboard slave states, yellow gal, original singer, done wid, cry holy, round the corn, white spirituals, dat day Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, South Carolina, Civil War, Port Royal Islands, North America, Nat Turner, North Carolina, American Colonization Society, West Indies, Colonel Higginson, Deep River, Army Life, Black Regiment, Chapel Hill, Sierra Leone, Southampton County, African Negroes, New Orleans, South America, African Repository, American Negroes, Becca Lawton, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Helena Island New!
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- Army Life In A Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson on 12 pages
- Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson on 12 pages
- Cabin and Plantation Songs by Thomas Fenner on 4 pages
- Religious Folk Songs of the Negro by Hampton Institute on 4 pages
- White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands by George Pullen Jackson on 4 pages
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- American Negro Slavery: A Modern Reader by Allen Weinstein on 5 pages
- Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature by Donald H. Matthews on 4 pages
- Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue: Black Theology in the Slave Narratives, 2nd Edition by Dwight N. Hopkins in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Heart and Head: Black Theology--Past, Present, and Future by Prof. Dwight N. Hopkins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Black Names (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 13) by Joey Lee Dillard on page 51, and Back Matter
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