Join historian Connie Martin to learn how Plantation songs, or Negro Spirituals, where used on the Underground Railroad to signal signs and tips to aid enslaved fugitives to seeking freedom.
Powerful, sacred songs that derived from the heart of the antebellum enslaved African were melodic outflowing of religious expression, passion, and the hope to be free. Negro spirituals, as originated in America, tell of sorrow, trials and tribulations, secrecy and hiding, and hope for a sense of community.
Join Connie as she explains the connections of Plantation songs, or Negro Spirituals with meanings and interpretations of lyrics of some songs used in regions of the South that signaled a multiple of signs and tips that aided enslaved fugitives to find freedom.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | History & Genealogy | Education & Learning | Arts & Culture |
TAGS: | SR23 |
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