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  2. Joseph Winters - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Richard Winters (August 29, 1824 [1] – November 29, 1916) was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who, on May 7, 1878, received U.S. Patent number 203,517 for a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder. On April 8, 1879, he received U.S. Patent number 214,224 for an improvement on the ladder.

  3. Songs of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    In this song the repeated line "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" is thus often interpreted as instructions to escaping slaves to travel north by following the North Star, leading them to the northern states, Canada, and freedom: The song ostensibly encodes escape instructions and a map from Mobile, Alabama, up the Tombigbee River, over the divide to ...

  4. Fire escape - Wikipedia

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    Fire escape in Oulu Lower part of a fire escape in New York City. A fire escape consists of a number of horizontal platforms, one at each story of a building, with ladders or stairs connecting them. The platform and stairs usually consist of open steel gratings, to prevent the build-up of ice, snow, and leaves.

  5. All the Pain Money Can Buy - Wikipedia

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    All the Pain Money Can Buy is the second studio album by American rock band Fastball, released on March 10, 1998, on Hollywood Records.The album includes the hit singles "The Way" (1998), "Fire Escape" (1998), and "Out of My Head" (1999).

  6. Slave Songs of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential, [1] [2] collection of spirituals to be published. The collectors of the songs were Northern abolitionists William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles Pickard Ware. [3]

  7. Category:African-American spiritual songs - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 27 January 2021, at 04:24 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (soundtrack) - Wikipedia

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    Hans Zimmer collaborated with American rapper will.i.am to produce the score and songs for Escape 2 Africa. [2] To record for the film, Zimmer and will.i.am, had travelled to Africa (where the film was set) for the musical ideas and collaborated with the African musicians on the album. In the process, they had written four songs together for ...

  9. We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder - Wikipedia

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    This generated two distinctive African American slave musical forms, the spiritual (sung music usually telling a story) and the field holler (sung or chanted music usually involving repetition of the leader's line). [1] We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a spiritual. [1] As a folk song originating in a repressed culture, the song's origins are lost.

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