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  2. Category:African-American spiritual songs - Wikipedia

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  3. 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.

  4. Spirituals - Wikipedia

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    Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, [1] Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, [2] [3] [4] which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade [5] and for centuries afterwards, through ...

  5. Black Gospel music - Wikipedia

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    Black gospel music, often called gospel music or gospel, is the traditional music of the Black diaspora in the United States.It is rooted in the conversion of enslaved Africans to Christianity, both during and after the trans-atlantic slave trade, starting with work songs sung in the fields and, later, with religious songs sung in various church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals ...

  6. Gospel Plow - Wikipedia

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    It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index, number 10075. The title is biblical, based on Luke 9:62. The earliest date in which this spiritual appears in written form is in 1917, in the Cecil Sharp Collection, while the earliest recording is from 1930 under the title of "Keep Yo' Hand on the Plow, Hold On" by the Hall Johnson Negro Choir. [1]

  7. Songs of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Another song with a reportedly secret meaning is "Now Let Me Fly" [3] which references the biblical story of Ezekiel's Wheels. [4] The song talks mostly of a promised land. This song might have boosted the morale and spirit of the slaves, giving them hope that there was a place waiting that was better than where they were.

  8. Somebody's Knocking at Your Door - Wikipedia

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    "Somebody's Knocking at Your Door", sometimes given as "Somebody's Knocking" and "Somebody's Knockin ' at Yo' Door", is a spiritual. The song's music and text has no known author, [1] but originated among enslaved African-Americans on Plantation complexes in the Southern United States sometime in the early 19th century.

  9. Traditional black gospel - Wikipedia

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    Hymns, Protestant gospel songs, and spirituals make up the basic source of modern Black gospel. The Library of Congress has recordings of Negro Spirituals; 1. Song - Go down Moses. 2. Song - Deep river. 3. Song - Golden slippers. 4. Song - Steal away. The Library of Congress has recordings of African Americans singing Black Gospel; 1. Song - Oh ...