Society: Religion_and_Spirituality: Christianity: Music: Styles: Spirituals

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Glimpses #89: Negro Spirituals
Article from the Christian History Institute, with song lyrics.

Hymns & Spirituals
Lyrics and WAV files for ~10 spirituals quoted in "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

The Negro Spiritual
Quarterly containing education, history, and news related to Negro Spirituals: subscription information, news, and reviews.

Negro Spirituals
Eyewitness account of lyrics and performance, from an article in the 1867 Atlantic Monthly.

Negro Spirituals and Gospel Music
(Historical overview, with a few sample lyrics).

Slave Songs of the United States.
E-text including introduction, lyrics, and annotated music collected by William Francis Allen, 1830-1889, Charles Pickard Ware, 1840-1921, and Lucy McKim Garrison 1842-1877.

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