Spiritual (music)

Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are the songs which were sung by the black slaves^[1] in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries.^[2] More and more Africans were becoming Christian, so the words to many Negro spirituals have Christian themes.^[1] They sung these spirituals as a way to cope with the pain of slavery.^[1] Negro spirituals combine traditional West African musical style with the style of Christian hymns from Europe.

Spiritual (music) Media

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Engraving of Douglass from his 1845 narrative
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Portrait of James Weldon Johnson in 1932
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Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1875
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Photograph of Harry T. Burleigh, 1936
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Robert Nathaniel Dett in the 1920s
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The image of American blues singer Mamie Smith

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "African American Spirituals". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
↑ "U.S. Slavery: Timeline, Figures & Abolition". HISTORY. 2025-01-14. Retrieved 2025-01-30.

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "African American Spirituals". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2025-01-30.

[2] "U.S. Slavery: Timeline, Figures & Abolition". HISTORY. 2025-01-14. Retrieved 2025-01-30.

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