I wish that PBS would bring back the History Detectives series. They did a great job of investigating artifacts that were important to African Americans.
I'm only 44 but I know quite a few of the songs in that book. My grandma's grandma sang them to her and then she sang them to me. One day I will sing the ones I remember to my own grandchildren, God willing.
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Please you may not need only your grand children. To hear , you need the work to hear , I will suggest you create a UA-cam channel and sing some of those songs there why not all. Then you will later sing them to your grand children and please send me the link of the channel. With much love ! waiting to hear from you soon.God bless you
@@amenanaka6640 and we here in America have continued to do the same. Much of our African traditions still remain even after all we have gone through. It makes me sad for our youngest generations. They are losing that part of their culture as the elders are no longer living and their children don't keep up with the things we've always done. My parents and grandparents passed on long ago. I'm grateful for what they shared with me while they still walked the earth.
@@adaadiaz3017 In Heaven, there IS no "COLOR" - never was; peoples as "colors" is a European concoction designed to divide peoples based on the cynicism of a chemical compound. In actuality, these songs are African or "Africano Spirituals". Are you a "troll-manic"? What is your color? Will it be found in Heaven? Maybe yes! Meus Dominus!
Plantation owners locked up the slave's shoes, so they didn't escape. The forests, and land was rough, so without shoes it was nearly impossible to get away. That's very cruel and sad.
I was reading not long ago, that the African slaves introduced the early form of the Banjo to America, without which there may not have been one of the iconic sounds inherent in Blue Grass music.
Powerful and emotional. Thanks for whomever posted this. Choirs never do these songs justice at all but the raw recordings will penetrate deep into your heart and break it. Thank you
Peace be with you. Any Hebrew proud to be associated with any western nation should kill themselves less we all die in vain. America will be judged for its transgressions. The living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will come to avenge. Fear God, all you who tarry the Earth! Give glory to the maker of the heavens, the Earth, the lands, the seas and all life found therein, for his righteous judgment does come! Hebrews should come out of her--NOW! The children of Jacob owe no fealty to ANY COUNTRY OR RELIGION, for they were all complicit in our demise. They would have us in shackles, working their lands for scraps, oppressed in perpetuity...LEAVE HER TO HER WHORING WAYS AND FLEE! Furthermore, calling yourself after the one who raped, beat, murdered, enslaved THEN oppressed you is just downright disturbing. No Hebrew should be embracing the "blood cult" known as the United States, ever! African American?! That's stupid, gross, barbaric, unnatural, and certainly unnecessary. Be blessed.
It is indeed. I went to the funeral of my coworker's wife...she was one of the 9 people killed in the AME Church in downtown Charleston. I understood then...at least a glimmer of the fortitude of black people and their determination to emotionally/ spiritually rise above whatever horrible circumstance that was forced upon them. I have the deepest respect for their amazing Spirit...and the music that reflects it. 💓
This is none other than an extension of the Book of Lamentation. There's no other place on earth where people were enslaved that could sing religious songs to their Creator other than Black Americans and the Hebrews taken into captivity during Jeremiah's days. The two situations are almost identical. In both instances, their captors or enslavers required them to sing hymns, the latter being recorded and preserved just like in the Bible. God has a way of bringing darkness to light. He never forget His chosen people.
But let's not frame this in the notion of chosen people - that's where the crisis of man's inhumanity arises - the idea that some are more entitled than others, superior to others ..... when men become arrogant.
@@Aprilforevergreen No, Pedro is right, the Hebrews are God's chosen people. This is currently the time of the Gentiles. We are red and yellow, black, brown and white. BUT! When Jesus rules 1000 years on this Earth He will be in Jerusalem.
@@Joanla1954 throughout history God has favoured many different people's - and they have all been ungrateful. It's just a lesson not to believe yourselves better than anyone else. The attitude of chosen people is exactly the attitude that leads human beings as individuals and comunitities to commit injustice, and attrocities against others. It's a shame really that people who believe in God and Christ justify the I'll treatment of other people out of a feeling of superiority - an attitude which is thoroughly unGodly and unChrist like.
I agree with this history except for Country Music which really comes from a mix of white settlers who played what they knew from the old country and it evolved into mountain music, blue grass, and so on.
Nonsense, all modern popular music genres originated from European folk music, you can hear the similarity of negro spirituals to European sea shanties and the like.
Wow thats AMAZING. That is TRULY A GIFT. I just bought a copy of that book on Amazon and CANT WAIT to read it. I wish I could learn the melodies. Make sure you all KEEP passing those songs down!!!!!!!!
and most of people dont care with the african , they dont know how the slaves were creative in their forced work , africa culture is rich but unfortunatelly in these world there are just 2 continent : North American and European...if u know what i mean
Africa? The Negro Spiritual came from Scotland, which was called precenting the line, who in turn got it from England. Scottish folk who migrated to America brought the singing style with them, which they passed on to their African slaves. It then became the Negro Spiritual. www.urbancusp.com/2014/09/lined-hymn-african-american-vocal-tradition/ www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/black-america-s-musical-links-to-scotland-1-465474 Obviously, African music has influenced African-American music. But in this instance it was Europeans.
the point here my friend its how the slaves have such influenced the music in America ant most of them were not recognized , their music were simply stolen by the white people . not demoralizing the europeans because we owe a lot to their music , but its really strange The Negro Spirituails as you said come from Scotland , cause the name "Negro" is similar the "black" , and Spirituals the religion. so yes, i read about this kind of music and I presume the african people have created it , but there's possibility the africans got it from the Scotland , because they had "the capella" and all this similar stuff ..
These songs tell our history. They call us African but we sing of Jerusalem and Zion , Biblical songs because Black people or so called African Americans are God's people.. The Children of Israel.
Yes, as much as I want to know more about my histoty, all I do is cry to know that millions of Africans were enslaved and treated so so horrible. I'm Black, 66 y.o woman & it hurt so so much. How they suffered, but yet endured. So amazing strength! It's hard! Little food, shabby housing and slave labor without pay. All Black Americans should b praised along with d Indians. How can I sleep knowing children are hungry. Watch them cook, yet they are d scraps!! Brought over as cargo and treated as trash for hundreds of years!! 😔
@@ontoyoualways9183 IS IT? WHY ARE THINGS THE SAME IF ITS OVER WITH? WHO IS REAPING THE REWARDS OF ALL THE BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS AFTER YEARS OF TORTURE? THEIR CHILDREN!
Slaves communicated by singing.Singing uplifted them.I can relate being a veteran.Songs can uplift you in hard times.Even more so when u are singing to GOD.
This comment is a nonsense given that they were kidnapped by force from Africa and not Israel. The delusion and self hate is high with you guys wanna be anything else but what you really and truly are:AFRICAN just a DNA test will set the record straight.
My heart breaks for our black brothers and sisters. Those that kidnapped them from their country AND their own people that got paid to help catch them for slavery I'm sure found their place in hell. They have had to answer to our heavenly father. With that said, it still hurts to see what they were put through. May our black ancestors rest peacefully for they are at the right hand of the holy father. In heaven, everyone is the same . No race, creed or color issues in heaven❤️🙏
You got a rude awakening coming lady. IF NO COLOR OR CREED WAS AND STILL NOT AN ISSUE WHY DID WE AS A PEOPLE GO THOUGH ALL OF THIS BECAUSE OF OUR COLOR TILL THIS DAY? You should read revaluations again because there are 12 GATES TO THE KINGDOM AND 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL THAT HAVE BE SENT INTO CAPTIVITY FOR DISOBEDIENCE OF THE MOST HIGH IN HEAVEN AND HE TURNED HIS FACE FROM US AND PUT US IN THE HANDS OF OUR ENEMIES FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Ezekiel 39:23-29 King James Version 23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. Revelation 13:10-18 King James Version 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. There is your “RAPTURE”!
@The Last Stand You would be wise to realize Christ is the Great I AM, and as such, doesn't care about your race because he created all of them for his glory. Everyone, not just the Romans are guilty because we all put him on the cross for our sins. And thank God he went to the cross with joy to pay our sin debt. If Christ and all of Israel were black, that would not count for anything. It earns you no credit before the throne of God. Your heart is the issue.
During the Harlem Renaissance W.E.B Dubois and others made an effort to re-discover Spirituals and not only have them arranged and performed as classical music, but to also get African American classical composers create symphonic works with the folk music of African Americans. They believed that although this music sprung from the hearts and throats of a people who station in life was quite low the music they created was no less than that of Mozart and should be heard on the same stages and by the same audiences.
All HBCU choirs sing this way; any former college student knows this. Reason being, all of the colleges started for emancipated slaves were not only started by white abolitionists, but named after them also. The white abolitionist used the voice of black singer to raise money for their schools. For a matter of fact, the majority of the black choirs' audiences were rich white contributors. This is why white folk love to hear blacks entertain them. As long as we're singing a sad song they will gladly listen. They also love to brag about the inferior condition they held blacks in for so many centuries. They don't want to hear the songs sung in the way they were sung in the cotton fields; they want to stroke their ego while at the same time being entertained. You will be equally shocked to hear some African choir sing in the same opera-style as their oppressors. Many do not realize that abolitionists were not our friends; they were puritans whose religious conviction was that all men should be free, but they never considered blacks their equals or dare give us the opportunity to be on a level playing field. This is why we need to reclaim our culture and began to publish true expression of our slave songs. One thing they always mess up in these documentaries is refusing to admit that slaves are the descendants of the Ancient Hebrew, we are not singing Christianity's song we're sing or ancestor's songs. Kum Ba Yah is one of them, but none of the experts will admit that slaves were singing Hebrew when that came off of the slave ships.
@@RepublicTeaRoom our ancestors sing this song during slavery. Notice the name of the land where they came from. English Translation My true country, I love you, you are beautiful in my eyes too! Your goodness I am searching the truth, the bad should dissapear. The piece of land, where I am, I really must love it, since God put me there to stay there for a while. where my father and my mother and my family are Pure love must never end, Let me stay by their side. I pray to God, that he will keep us within his hands, and that our country will always be able to eat from the good things, that He gives us. That calmness and peace will stay everywhere in the country and between our countrymen En everyone, who is on my side. The faith has to grow, to give us strength, until we move, since we are going to the land of Kanaan 👈🏾 Do you know where that country is? And what is looking after you? It's upstairs in heaven And honestly much more beautiful This song is like a second anthem of Suriname. It describes the love, that many Surinamish people have for their country, which is good. Everyone should love his country... ua-cam.com/video/GhhtZMEE5cs/v-deo.html
Our county schools are not allowing teachers to use this music in their curriculum because they think it is racist to learn about "slave music". They don't realize that by doing so, they are erasing part of the history of American music itself. I am glad I found this clip to show my children at home.
Absolutely! Kept them from losing their minds, like the deep raw Psalms that pour out to God what's going on - injustice being a big issue, undeserved persecution being another.
I believe this world would revert back to better days IF only our churches would bring back some of these songs and do not revise the beat of the song. i was brought up on some of these songs and when sung correctly they bring forth a great hope and peace in ones soul. I believe the world would turn less cruel if these messages in song was brought back to the people of today.
Of course gospel songs are about Jesus and you can accept Jesus as your savior anytime you want. As the old saying goes he is only a prayer away. God bless you.
The song is clearly an expression of pain and despair as it conveys the hopelessness of a child who has been torn from their parents. Under one interpretation, the repetitive singing of the word "sometimes" offers a measure of hope, as it suggests that at least "sometimes" I do not feel like a motherless child.[3] Although the plaintive words can be interpreted literally, they might alternatively be metaphoric. The “motherless child” could be a slave separated from and yearning for his or her African homeland, his or her spouse, parents, siblings or child(ren) (from all or any of which he or she may have been separated in the trafficking process) or a slave suffering “a long ways from home”-home being heaven-or most likely all.There can be no forgivenless...Ever! Massavana
Your post caught my eye. I hope I am not out of line but this video and your comments just filled my heart. I am Irish and our songs are similar. They were songs to help the Irish endure an inescapable life of presecution, poverty and death. Although my skin is white my history is that of genocide by the hand of the English. I always had a longing to go to Ireland to see where I came from. When I finally did go there I understood so much more.. The orphanages in Ireland have hundreds if not thousands of Irish children buried under the grasses of the estates. These were run by nuns and priests. My ancestors escaped the famine and war of Ireland and came to the USA to find the Colonial establishments here with signs that said NO IRISH ALLOWED. They walked into the hills and lived with the native people for decades. The English did not consider the Irish as equal even though we all had white skin. They tore our towns into rubble, created poverty and famine, killed the parents and the orphans left behind. In the Western British Isles the Elite ruling class were killing and destroying the Irish. In West Africa the Elite African leadership were selling the poor Blacks to the slaveships. After hundreds of years nothing has changed. The Elite now wave this banner to the oppressed. "We will help you and house you, educate you and give you Healthcare". As they use the poor for service jobs and tax us into poverty and reduce us to hate each other. Sad to see this continue today, the same human trafficking is going on by the Global Elite. They are once again culling the poor. Instead of overtly rounding them up by the military they are being told they will have a better life in America and the handlers are all being paid to traffic them here. Those who come here on that journey are being raped and killed along the way. Babies are being sold for their organs and children are being stolen from their parents. There is nothing new under the sun. It isn't the color of our skin. It is the greed and the need to keep us from understanding it is Eugenics.
Richard Levert, We are forgiven. But we need to pray and do something because our phones/ computer/ clothes are mostly made by slaves. What’s the solution? The Bible state “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” Galatians 5:1
I come from share cropping roots from the 1800s. My family may be white in color, but I was raised on many of these Spirituals. They come from the heart and soul of the singers, no matter their color. People are trying to erase the traces of this period of history. I’m thankful these songs and others like them have survived. You can destroy stuff but you cannot destroy this Soulful heritage of many people of all colors. A grateful Singer 🎶
It's not "no matter their color". These spirituals exist PRECISELY because these people were black/of African descent, and were thus subject to chattel slavery. These spirituals have EVERYTHING to do with with these enslaved people's race and heritage. Words like yours are an erasure in an of themselves.
Just because you grew up with these songs doesn't mean they aren't the culture of a specific group of people. Stop trying to divorce Black Americans from our culture just because you enjoy it.
The strength the Holy Spirit gives is what got them through slavery. The Bible teaches that it is wrong to steal, as that is what slavery essentially is. It is also wrong to abuse your fellow man.
@@fuckoff81747 The law in Exodus isn't laws "permitting" people. It is case law or a ruling by a judge. The ruling in verse 20 basically states that the "state" can't punish the owner of the enslaved person with death because the slave didn't die. But keep in mind the law also states that the enslaved person can go free if there is evidence of abuse. Was slavery in those times? yes. But rulings regulated it so that kidnapping, abuse, and murder in terms of enslaved people were illegal. one could only buy a slave that sold themselves into slavery, or one could get their slaves as a result of a nation losing a war. The only negative you can find in the case laws is the bias against foreign enslaved people and native enslaved Hebrews.
@@fuckoff81747 you are 100% right. Europeans expressed, in GREAT DETAIL, how Africans not knowing of Jesus a major reason they had no shame in abusing them. They said Africans weren't children of good because they didn't know Christ
That description is in the Bible: "man stealers." But the Bible clearly limits the time of slavery, 7 years, and requires the slave be provided with supplies (idk, a flock, food, tools?) at his release. Imo, the guilt should be placed upon the preachers in slave states. Certainly they preached to the owners; should have preached to "let my people go!" after their 7 years ended. And certainly to honor the family structure, to release the wife and children of the freed slave. But remember, there is still slavery in the Middle East and in Africa. The movie, Blood (or Black) Diamonds, which documented drugged children (boys only). Let's unite as honest Americans, to stop bullying and oppression and child sex trafficking.
the most disturbing thing about this clip is the whites,who were descendents of slave owners if not themselves,have credit for the songs.songs sung in sorrow of bondage.we'll never know who the true writers of the songs and rhythms were,only the whites who claimed the credit and we're paid for comprising and selling the agony of a nationality.
it's very sad and especially that this continued well into the 1960s ad 1970s when groups songs like those of the temptations and others were stolen. Also you know that song "don't you step on my blue suede shoes." That was taken by a black woman from those days and he turned it into a hit.
I can't believe that the peckawoods who compiled the book are necessarily TRYING to take credit for the works, but of course they were getting some money off of publishing the book. That's how they were raised. At least they acknowledged that these are songs created by African people taken as slaves.
Yes, they were white. Well to do white people from the North. They were also abolitionists who, recognizing the evil of slavery were committed to freeing the people held in bondage. Once the war began, they left their comfortable homes and went to the islands off the Carolinas to assist the newly freed people in their transition. While there, they compiled and transcribed this collection of works, preserving them for history. I don't feel they claimed credit for the music. I think they recognized the beauty, pain and humanity of the music and were inspired to preserve and share it. I'm proud of the fact that my Great-Grandfather and his brother, Canadians by birth and Scots by descent, joined the Union Army early in the war between the States.
I love this. I do think that the Civil War ended in 1868. So it was actually during the war when this was printed. Books are so valuable to the history of this and all countries.
@@fuckoff81747 Its the sinful nature of man, not Christianity as the root, my leading point being slavery still goes on today. And just like the abolitionist in the past, today it is mostly christian groups going into slave territory to free them. The devil perverted the letter of Ephesians to make it say what it didn't mean for the plantation owners.
@@TubeFuzzyCheese glad you know bro. It's not Christianity but Christinization (Catholicism). But the Lord will redeem us soon, it's part of His will. APTTMH
Those are our ancestors and we are not from afraica. We have always been on the island. We are the aboriginal copper colored indigenous native people of america. This is our Island homeland.
Thank you for sharing this. We need more content about these topics🙌🏿. We recently launched a channel about African heritage and culture to help spread the word✊🏿
In our Hymnbook back in the 1960's, we had a full section of dozens of songs entitled 'Negro Spirituals'. That was in the Church of God (Headquarters in Anderson, Indiana). They were always some of my favorite hymns for us to sing. I wish unbelievers would realize that people who have been born again from the Spirit of God (not neccesarily all those who claim to be Christian) see other believers no matter the color, as one body. We may worship in different church buildings, usually do to different music and preaching styles, but we come together on special occasions. We had another body in the same denomination a few miles away, and we would get together for Sunday afternoons / evenings to sing and worship.
Let's say it this way: a former captain of a slave ship, an Englishman. He never thought he could be free from his guilt, but God indeed forgave him. He then wrote this hymn, Amazing Grace. I do forget his name. You'll have to google it.
I'm bothered in how they are singing the songs like an opera or catholic choir...song it like our ancestors sung it! Whats the point of showing this if the songs are sung right? I promise my ancestors werent standing choir style in the field singing an opera full voice under a hot sun being whipped I thought I was going to hear it in its genuine voice
AmorrBaby Hi, I’m an old white woman who fell in love with “Black Gospel” music years ago. African Americans did sing, worship, and have services like “high church”. Listen to James Abbington’s choir. Many of the songs are done in the “white church” style. Some of the African American churches have the best dressed choirs, the ushers dressed to the nines always with white gloves. Check out the convocations of the COGIC! Blessed
I see I wasn’t the only one thinking that about the choir. The choir did their best but there aren’t many groups that could be formed and sing those songs with the emotions those slaves did. I’m glad he found more information on his book.
It does my spirit good to see all the comments of my people waking up! Information is coming out right and left! Nobody could cause such a movement other than the Most High! What blessing to be alive to see His promise being fulfilled. I am blessed to be at your side as a witness. Q'am Yasharala! APTTMH! Hebrew Israelite Pride!❤
John D. Rockefeller adored Negro hymns loved these songs and created the Black Women College in Atlanta SPELLMAN COLLEGE named after his wifes last name where Martin Luther Kings Mom and Grandmother were among its prominent alumnus. Just wanted to put this out there. Im currently reading Titan: The Life of John D, Rockefeller, Sr. and that book made me come to UA-cam and watch this amazing video.
I was at a Leon Bibb concert and he said that the order of the songs at evening meeting mapped out the escape routes to the north. For example... Down by the riverside would be the meeting place and Go tell it on the mountain would be the next part of the trip, etc. Very clever.
A lot of "America's culture" is actually from African Americans. Its sad that we aren't taught this in our history classes, the world should know about this!
Good, go back to Europe, you would be accepted there. When you pay taxes and not even allowed to attend public schools, then there is a problem. They built their own schools and now you people are saying historical colleges and universities and racist, you people are pathetic!
America needs more education re: African American history, which is American history after all. Learning American history does NOT negate anyone's individual, personal story. Far from it! It simply binds us (U.S.) all as a nation of varied people with unique experiences. In the case of African-Americans, the legacy is beyond harsh, and that must be acknowledged.
Just glad they finally added descriptions with source titles Slave songs of the United States (1867) Wayne Francis Allen et al It remains in print, collected spirituals So glad his mother collected artefacts
"chattel"slave Institution. Chattel means Property. Property has value and is insured. Absolutely circa B.C. Map of PANGEA shows EUROPEANS did not bring us here to Turtle Island.
It is interesting how the Democrats had the Supreme Court declare Blacks were not human and therefore could be enslaved. The Democrats did the same with unborn babies so they can be barbarically torn to pieces right up till the time of birth as not being human beings. Democrats says the child is not a human being till it departs the hospital. Jesus Christ is our only hope. Romans 10:9-10 from the Bible: “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Val Lee of “val lee weblog” vallee7.wordpress.com
Stop posting clickbait u fucktard last I check the GOP was the party of George Wallace and company after 1972, so I have no interest in your nonsensical conflation of Dredd Scott with abortion. Hell I wish abortion would’ve been universally permitted early enough to have made sure you got abortion. If you don’t like abortion, then don’t get one. If you want to usurp the right of others to govern themselves, amend the constitution. We live in a democracy, and we don’t amend settled law with court decisions striking down earlier decisions. Even Dredd Scott had to be supplanted by the 14th amendment. So bottom line: go die faggot.
@@GrandadeeSmalls I'm Nigerian native and resident. Yoruba to be precise. I keep wondering why the enslaved kept such accurate memory of the ancient Yoruba religion of Orishas and their ADOS still practice it in the diaspora but kept no Hebraisms. I was shocked to see d wholesale cultural export in Brazil. Even food like akara had same Yoruba name. Same scenario in Cuba, Haiti etc. Similar case with the Gullahs of Florida. Was there any Hebraisms to keep? We have no such history of being Hebrews. No Hebrew artefacts have been found anywhere in West Africa, no cemeteries, no ruins, nothing. Whereas there's a trail of these left in past authentic Jewish settlements worldwide.
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We should have more of these and they should be taught in schools. This is where real music began from the soul, that's why in my heart in my humble opinion I think it's called soul music
I honestly have a lot of reservations about a number of these songs being westernized and sung outside of their cultural context... so many of these songs are prayers, so many of them are about freedom and about escaping to that elusive aim. If I had to listen to a whole class of kids sing something like Liddy I'd probably have to leave. Same with many native songs... those with deep spiritual meaning and cultural context shouldn't be removed from those contexts by outsiders.
Are you all still sleeping, check those songs in that book. They sing of the bible, King David, the rivers, the people and places. How can you sleep, we were in slavery and forbidden to read and write, yet we sang of the word of our God. Our heritage was stolen and hidden from us, we are the Israelites. Wake UP
We did not come from afraica. We have always been here. We are the indigenous aboriginal natives of this Island. Not afraica stop calling God's people by words. We are the true people of the Bible. Israelites hebrew copper colored indigenous aboriginal natives.
Not everyone has always been here. Granted some are ancestors of those that traveled via king Solomon's naval ships but some are not. Even then israel is/was located in Africa so yeah all came from afica just some came a different way.
One. of the book's authors was named Garrison. I wonder if she was related to William Lloyd Garrison. They were both abolitionists and that's not a particularly common name.
She was married to his son. See her entry in Wikipedia and the 2015 biography by musicologist Samuel Charters: "Songs of Sorrow: Lucy McKim Garrison and 'Slave Songs of the United States'
@@jsbrules Thanks. I should have looked up the Wikipedia myself, of course. On the other hand, maybe others will read our comments and gain something from them.
Without music, our ancestors wouldn’t have survived the pain and anguish they went through during slavery.
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The more that thing change the more they stay the same. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for music
And I am a old white guy
@@drewhendley whatever
We created it
I wish that PBS would bring back the History Detectives series. They did a great job of investigating artifacts that were important to African Americans.
I'm only 44 but I know quite a few of the songs in that book. My grandma's grandma sang them to her and then she sang them to me. One day I will sing the ones I remember to my own grandchildren, God willing.
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Please you may not need only your grand children. To hear , you need the work to hear , I will suggest you create a UA-cam channel and sing some of those songs there why not all. Then you will later sing them to your grand children and please send me the link of the channel. With much love ! waiting to hear from you soon.God bless you
Maybe you could record them for us and future generations!
This is how we communicate our culture here in Africa to our children from generation to generations because our culture is oral.
@@amenanaka6640 and we here in America have continued to do the same. Much of our African traditions still remain even after all we have gone through. It makes me sad for our youngest generations. They are losing that part of their culture as the elders are no longer living and their children don't keep up with the things we've always done. My parents and grandparents passed on long ago. I'm grateful for what they shared with me while they still walked the earth.
we got shoes, we got shoes
all of God's children got shoes,
when we get to heaven,
we gonna, put on our shoes
we gonna, walk all over
God's Heaven
Thanks for sharing the light.
I love to see black people sing worship songs! I have always imagine that in heaven there are a lot of black people.
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@@adaadiaz3017 In Heaven, there IS no "COLOR" - never was; peoples as "colors" is a European concoction designed to divide peoples based on the cynicism of a chemical compound.
In actuality, these songs are African or "Africano Spirituals".
Are you a "troll-manic"?
What is your color? Will it be found in Heaven?
Maybe yes!
Meus Dominus!
Plantation owners locked up the slave's shoes, so they didn't escape. The forests, and land was rough, so without shoes it was nearly impossible to get away. That's very cruel and sad.
I was reading not long ago, that the African slaves introduced the early form of the Banjo to America, without which there may not have been one of the iconic sounds inherent in Blue Grass music.
The fact that they could create such beauty in the middle of such cruelty and despair is the best testimony to the strength of their souls 🙏
Powerful and emotional. Thanks for whomever posted this. Choirs never do these songs justice at all but the raw recordings will penetrate deep into your heart and break it. Thank you
Lord have mercy indeed my dear.Indeed. Peace and Blessings
Deeply touching,a reflection of the indomitable spirit of the African American ...!!
Peace be with you.
Any Hebrew proud to be associated with any western nation should kill themselves less we all die in vain.
America will be judged for its transgressions. The living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will come to avenge. Fear God, all you who tarry the Earth! Give glory to the maker of the heavens, the Earth, the lands, the seas and all life found therein, for his righteous judgment does come!
Hebrews should come out of her--NOW! The children of Jacob owe no fealty to ANY COUNTRY OR RELIGION, for they were all complicit in our demise. They would have us in shackles, working their lands for scraps, oppressed in perpetuity...LEAVE HER TO HER WHORING WAYS AND FLEE!
Furthermore, calling yourself after the one who raped, beat, murdered, enslaved THEN oppressed you is just downright disturbing. No Hebrew should be embracing the "blood cult" known as the United States, ever! African American?! That's stupid, gross, barbaric, unnatural, and certainly unnecessary.
Be blessed.
It is indeed. I went to the funeral of my coworker's wife...she was one of the 9 people killed in the AME Church in downtown Charleston. I understood then...at least a glimmer of the fortitude of black people and their determination to emotionally/ spiritually rise
above whatever horrible circumstance that was forced upon them. I have the deepest respect for their amazing Spirit...and the music that reflects it. 💓
This is none other than an extension of the Book of Lamentation. There's no other place on earth where people were enslaved that could sing religious songs to their Creator other than Black Americans and the Hebrews taken into captivity during Jeremiah's days. The two situations are almost identical. In both instances, their captors or enslavers required them to sing hymns, the latter being recorded and preserved just like in the Bible. God has a way of bringing darkness to light. He never forget His chosen people.
Amen! Thank you Jesus.☝️🙏
But let's not frame this in the notion of chosen people - that's where the crisis of man's inhumanity arises - the idea that some are more entitled than others, superior to others ..... when men become arrogant.
@@Aprilforevergreen No, Pedro is right, the Hebrews are God's chosen people. This is currently the time of the Gentiles. We are red and yellow, black, brown and white. BUT! When Jesus rules 1000 years on this Earth He will be in Jerusalem.
@@Joanla1954 throughout history God has favoured many different people's - and they have all been ungrateful. It's just a lesson not to believe yourselves better than anyone else. The attitude of chosen people is exactly the attitude that leads human beings as individuals and comunitities to commit injustice, and attrocities against others. It's a shame really that people who believe in God and Christ justify the I'll treatment of other people out of a feeling of superiority - an attitude which is thoroughly unGodly and unChrist like.
There are NO chosen people by God . God chooses everybody . It is only certain ethnic groups that CALL themselves chosen . WRONGLY I might add.
Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Metal, etc. So many important genres have came from it!
Including country music
Is the book Slave Songs the first known collection of early slave songs?
Gospel🤨
I agree with this history except for Country Music which really comes from a mix of white settlers who played what they knew from the old country and it evolved into mountain music, blue grass, and so on.
Nonsense, all modern popular music genres originated from European folk music, you can hear the similarity of negro spirituals to European sea shanties and the like.
My mom has a copy of that same book and she taught us some of the songs when we were growing up. ❤
Wow thats AMAZING. That is TRULY A GIFT. I just bought a copy of that book on Amazon and CANT WAIT to read it. I wish I could learn the melodies.
Make sure you all KEEP passing those songs down!!!!!!!!
Wow! Lucky you💙
Don't let it go💚💙
That's great.
That is amazing...
So basically the slaves were inspiration for the many forms of music like blues and rock and roll
and most of people dont care with the african , they dont know how the slaves were creative in their forced work , africa culture is rich but unfortunatelly in these world there are just 2 continent : North American and European...if u know what i mean
They were more than just an inspiration, they were the inventors of it.
Africa? The Negro Spiritual came from Scotland, which was called precenting the line, who in turn got it from England. Scottish folk who migrated to America brought the singing style with them, which they passed on to their African slaves. It then became the Negro Spiritual.
www.urbancusp.com/2014/09/lined-hymn-african-american-vocal-tradition/
www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/black-america-s-musical-links-to-scotland-1-465474
Obviously, African music has influenced African-American music. But in this instance it was Europeans.
Wrong. Latin music is a fusion of Native American, African and European musical styles.
the point here my friend its how the slaves have such influenced the music in America ant most of them were not recognized , their music were simply stolen by the white people . not demoralizing the europeans because we owe a lot to their music , but its really strange The Negro Spirituails as you said come from Scotland , cause the name "Negro" is similar the "black" , and Spirituals the religion. so yes, i read about this kind of music and I presume the african people have created it , but there's possibility the africans got it from the Scotland , because they had "the capella" and all this similar stuff ..
These songs tell our history. They call us African but we sing of Jerusalem and Zion , Biblical songs because Black people or so called African Americans are God's people.. The Children of Israel.
Thank you three good folks who pulled together and put those hope filled songs together in one book. Doing the work of saints on the earth!
Very true, truly angelic..🙏
Praise satan in my butthole yall! Yeee hawwww
These beautiful people suffered so much.😰
Yes, as much as I want to know more about my histoty, all I do is cry to know that millions of Africans were enslaved and treated so so horrible. I'm Black, 66 y.o woman & it hurt so so much. How they suffered, but yet endured. So amazing strength! It's hard! Little food, shabby housing and slave labor without pay. All Black Americans should b praised along with d Indians. How can I sleep knowing children are hungry. Watch them cook, yet they are d scraps!! Brought over as cargo and treated as trash for hundreds of years!! 😔
@@charranwilliams9150 Chill!! The majority of Caucasian can't even fathom this happening. We are not out to get you!! Slavery is over!!
And still suffering.. MAY OUR TRUE HEAVENLY FATHER JEHOVAH GOD ALMIGHTY CONTINUE BLESSING YOU ALL OF US IN JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN🙏🏼 PEACE&LOVE🕊
@@ontoyoualways9183 IS IT? WHY ARE THINGS THE SAME IF ITS OVER WITH? WHO IS REAPING THE REWARDS OF ALL THE BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS AFTER YEARS OF TORTURE? THEIR CHILDREN!
Judah always praised God. Judah means praise.
Slaves communicated by singing.Singing uplifted them.I can relate being a veteran.Songs can uplift you in hard times.Even more so when u are singing to GOD.
They knew they were not Africans, but the Israelites of the Bible.
This comment is a nonsense given that they were kidnapped by force from Africa and not Israel.
The delusion and self hate is high with you guys wanna be anything else but what you really and truly are:AFRICAN just a DNA test will set the record straight.
My heart breaks for our black brothers and sisters. Those that kidnapped them from their country AND their own people that got paid to help catch them for slavery I'm sure found their place in hell. They have had to answer to our heavenly father. With that said, it still hurts to see what they were put through. May our black ancestors rest peacefully for they are at the right hand of the holy father. In heaven, everyone is the same . No race, creed or color issues in heaven❤️🙏
A-m£n!!!
You got a rude awakening coming lady. IF NO COLOR OR CREED WAS AND STILL NOT AN ISSUE WHY DID WE AS A PEOPLE GO THOUGH ALL OF THIS BECAUSE OF OUR COLOR TILL THIS DAY? You should read revaluations again because there are 12 GATES TO THE KINGDOM AND 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL THAT HAVE BE SENT INTO CAPTIVITY FOR DISOBEDIENCE OF THE MOST HIGH IN HEAVEN AND HE TURNED HIS FACE FROM US AND PUT US IN THE HANDS OF OUR ENEMIES FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
Ezekiel 39:23-29
King James Version
23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
Revelation 13:10-18
King James Version
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
There is your “RAPTURE”!
@@shebrewdna5576 I'm confused 😕
@@tanshievlogs by what??
@The Last Stand You would be wise to realize Christ is the Great I AM, and as such, doesn't care about your race because he created all of them for his glory. Everyone, not just the Romans are guilty because we all put him on the cross for our sins. And thank God he went to the cross with joy to pay our sin debt. If Christ and all of Israel were black, that would not count for anything. It earns you no credit before the throne of God. Your heart is the issue.
During the Harlem Renaissance W.E.B Dubois and others made an effort to re-discover Spirituals and not only have them arranged and performed as classical music, but to also get African American classical composers create symphonic works with the folk music of African Americans.
They believed that although this music sprung from the hearts and throats of a people who station in life was quite low the music they created was no less than that of Mozart and should be heard on the same stages and by the same audiences.
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers, we'll rise from the ashes, let's not depend on the yte man, he's our oppressor, why would he make haste.
All HBCU choirs sing this way; any former college student knows this. Reason being, all of the colleges started for emancipated slaves were not only started by white abolitionists, but named after them also. The white abolitionist used the voice of black singer to raise money for their schools. For a matter of fact, the majority of the black choirs' audiences were rich white contributors. This is why white folk love to hear blacks entertain them. As long as we're singing a sad song they will gladly listen. They also love to brag about the inferior condition they held blacks in for so many centuries. They don't want to hear the songs sung in the way they were sung in the cotton fields; they want to stroke their ego while at the same time being entertained. You will be equally shocked to hear some African choir sing in the same opera-style as their oppressors. Many do not realize that abolitionists were not our friends; they were puritans whose religious conviction was that all men should be free, but they never considered blacks their equals or dare give us the opportunity to be on a level playing field. This is why we need to reclaim our culture and began to publish true expression of our slave songs. One thing they always mess up in these documentaries is refusing to admit that slaves are the descendants of the Ancient Hebrew, we are not singing Christianity's song we're sing or ancestor's songs. Kum Ba Yah is one of them, but none of the experts will admit that slaves were singing Hebrew when that came off of the slave ships.
I wrote kum BA Yah the whole song down in my note book it spoke to my heart it's our song Shalom Family Jackie
I call it Black trauma porn. They loved it and still do
#aeolians 🔥
What an interesting and well done piece! I think everyone needs to see this!
A-m£n!!! Your so right" cool. Are you from the 🇺🇸 USA.
I wanna hear african american history from african american people
Well research and tell it
Pres Obama is AA.
No one has a sound like us WE ARE JUDAH WE WERE THE MUSICIANS
We are HIS people and the sheep of HIS pasture...
We are Israel and Judah the 12 tribes of Yah.
Our Ancestors knew where they come from. It was just a song but pass down oral history of crosses the Jordan River.
@The Begotten. Boy bye...israelite you are.
@@RepublicTeaRoom our ancestors sing this song during slavery. Notice the name of the land where they came from.
English Translation
My true country,
I love you,
you are beautiful in my eyes too!
Your goodness
I am searching the truth,
the bad should dissapear.
The piece of land,
where I am,
I really must love it,
since God put me there
to stay there for a while.
where my father and my mother
and my family are
Pure love must never end,
Let me stay by their side.
I pray to God, that he will
keep us within his hands,
and that our country will always be
able to eat from the good things, that He gives us.
That calmness and peace will stay
everywhere in the country
and between our countrymen
En everyone, who is on my side.
The faith has to grow,
to give us strength,
until we move, since we are
going to the land of Kanaan 👈🏾
Do you know where that country is?
And what is looking after you?
It's upstairs in heaven
And honestly much more beautiful
This song is like a second anthem of Suriname. It describes the love, that many Surinamish people have for their country, which is good. Everyone should love his country...
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Our county schools are not allowing teachers to use this music in their curriculum because they think it is racist to learn about "slave music". They don't realize that by doing so, they are erasing part of the history of American music itself.
I am glad I found this clip to show my children at home.
That is why parents should teach their children about their history.
its point of doin so!
Not Negro spiritual but Hebrew spiritual! The world can deny but the soul of who we are as a people is undeniable! APTTMHY and Holy Spirit
Speak the truth to Yah's chosen people HalayluYah APTTMHY 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾🏹🏹🏹🔥🧹💥⚔️.
We are Hebrew!
Yes, yes, yes.
Psalm 137:3. Shonuff family, now it's time to, ISAIAH 58:1 . And especially time to, 2 Chronicles 7:14
WAKE UP JUDAH !!
Asholadani!
Those songs kept them from losing their minds. It was interpreted by their enslavers as "happiness."
Exactly
Agree, it was their only hope. Never to be forgotten.
Absolutely! Kept them from losing their minds, like the deep raw Psalms that pour out to God what's going on - injustice being a big issue, undeserved persecution being another.
Educational research,knowing the past gives encouragement to the future. Blessings to all.🙏🏿❤🙏🏿
these songs are deeply personal to me. these stories is my story.
Nocap
12 Tribes of Israel want their belongs back. Yahushua is Salvation. 10 Commandments Sabbath Saturday not Sunday.
Shalom
This brought tears to my eyes and heart
I believe this world would revert back to better days IF only our churches would bring back some of these songs and do not revise the beat of the song. i was brought up on some of these songs and when sung correctly they bring forth a great hope and peace in ones soul. I believe the world would turn less cruel if these messages in song was brought back to the people of today.
A blessing to know 🙏 more about our history..God bless. I pray 🙏, that unity will prevail.
Of course gospel songs are about Jesus and you can accept Jesus as your savior anytime you want. As the old saying goes he is only a prayer away. God bless you.
Amen!!!
Amen Amen Amen
If There's A Recording Of A Gospel Choir Singing These Songs, I'd LOVE To Hear It… It Would Be Amazing To Listen To This! Thank You So Much! :D
See the aolians from Oakwood University in Alabama.
Rock n Roll created by African Americans. Rock n Roll is a black southern term for sex. Come on people.
What faith is shown here! Never forget the trials of others.
Faith indeed!
Mr Norris taught music at Morris collage in the 60s and He Knew his music great teacher
The song is clearly an expression of pain and despair as it conveys the hopelessness of a child who has been torn from their parents. Under one interpretation, the repetitive singing of the word "sometimes" offers a measure of hope, as it suggests that at least "sometimes" I do not feel like a motherless child.[3]
Although the plaintive words can be interpreted literally, they might alternatively be metaphoric. The “motherless child” could be a slave separated from and yearning for his or her African homeland, his or her spouse, parents, siblings or child(ren) (from all or any of which he or she may have been separated in the trafficking process) or a slave suffering “a long ways from home”-home being heaven-or most likely all.There can be no forgivenless...Ever!
Massavana
Your post caught my eye. I hope I am not out of line but this video and your comments just filled my heart. I am Irish and our songs are similar. They were songs to help the Irish endure an inescapable life of presecution, poverty and death. Although my skin is white my history is that of genocide by the hand of the English. I always had a longing to go to Ireland to see where I came from. When I finally did go there I understood so much more.. The orphanages in Ireland have hundreds if not thousands of Irish children buried under the grasses of the estates. These were run by nuns and priests. My ancestors escaped the famine and war of Ireland and came to the USA to find the Colonial establishments here with signs that said NO IRISH ALLOWED. They walked into the hills and lived with the native people for decades.
The English did not consider the Irish as equal even though we all had white skin. They tore our towns into rubble, created poverty and famine, killed the parents and the orphans left behind.
In the Western British Isles the Elite ruling class were killing and destroying the Irish. In West Africa the Elite African leadership were selling the poor Blacks to the slaveships.
After hundreds of years nothing has changed. The Elite now wave this banner to the oppressed. "We will help you and house you, educate you and give you Healthcare".
As they use the poor for service jobs and tax us into poverty and reduce us to hate each other.
Sad to see this continue today, the same human trafficking is going on by the Global Elite. They are once again culling the poor. Instead of overtly rounding them up by the military they are being told they will have a better life in America and the handlers are all being paid to traffic them here. Those who come here on that journey are being raped and killed along the way. Babies are being sold for their organs and children are being stolen from their parents.
There is nothing new under the sun. It isn't the color of our skin. It is the greed and the need to keep us from understanding it is Eugenics.
Why are we so slow. There’s a reason that we only sang Hebrew themed songs, because we are the Hebrews. No other race of people sing these songs.
Richard Levert, We are forgiven. But we need to pray and do something because our phones/ computer/ clothes are mostly made by slaves. What’s the solution?
The Bible state “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” Galatians 5:1
I sung songs written by Robert Louis Stevenson in the 1950s my teacher taught in a small GA school. I loved those songs.
I come from share cropping roots from the 1800s. My family may be white in color, but I was raised on many of these Spirituals. They come from the heart and soul of the singers, no matter their color. People are trying to erase the traces of this period of history. I’m thankful these songs and others like them have survived. You can destroy stuff but you cannot destroy this Soulful heritage of many people of all colors. A grateful Singer 🎶
It's not "no matter their color". These spirituals exist PRECISELY because these people were black/of African descent, and were thus subject to chattel slavery. These spirituals have EVERYTHING to do with with these enslaved people's race and heritage. Words like yours are an erasure in an of themselves.
@@anyaw340 I agree, thanks you for this correction!
Thank you for sharing this💚
"Wt in color" doesn't mean Yte race.
Just because you grew up with these songs doesn't mean they aren't the culture of a specific group of people. Stop trying to divorce Black Americans from our culture just because you enjoy it.
The strength the Holy Spirit gives is what got them through slavery. The Bible teaches that it is wrong to steal, as that is what slavery essentially is. It is also wrong to abuse your fellow man.
@@fuckoff81747 The law in Exodus isn't laws "permitting" people. It is case law or a ruling by a judge. The ruling in verse 20 basically states that the "state" can't punish the owner of the enslaved person with death because the slave didn't die. But keep in mind the law also states that the enslaved person can go free if there is evidence of abuse. Was slavery in those times? yes. But rulings regulated it so that kidnapping, abuse, and murder in terms of enslaved people were illegal. one could only buy a slave that sold themselves into slavery, or one could get their slaves as a result of a nation losing a war. The only negative you can find in the case laws is the bias against foreign enslaved people and native enslaved Hebrews.
@@fuckoff81747 you truly LACK understanding
@@fuckoff81747 you are 100% right. Europeans expressed, in GREAT DETAIL, how Africans not knowing of Jesus a major reason they had no shame in abusing them. They said Africans weren't children of good because they didn't know Christ
That description is in the Bible: "man stealers." But the Bible clearly limits the time of slavery, 7 years, and requires the slave be provided with supplies (idk, a flock, food, tools?) at his release.
Imo, the guilt should be placed upon the preachers in slave states. Certainly they preached to the owners; should have preached to "let my people go!" after their 7 years ended. And certainly to honor the family structure, to release the wife and children of the freed slave.
But remember, there is still slavery in the Middle East and in Africa. The movie, Blood (or Black) Diamonds, which documented drugged children (boys only). Let's unite as honest Americans, to stop bullying and oppression and child sex trafficking.
Some were no doubt mistreated , buy most simply worked for room an board , many whites also !.
the most disturbing thing about this clip is the whites,who were descendents of slave owners if not themselves,have credit for the songs.songs sung in sorrow of bondage.we'll never know who the true writers of the songs and rhythms were,only the whites who claimed the credit and we're paid for comprising and selling the agony of a nationality.
No shame in their game, just money.
It disgusts me......they disgust me.
it's very sad and especially that this continued well into the 1960s ad 1970s when groups songs like those of the temptations and others were stolen. Also you know that song "don't you step on my blue suede shoes." That was taken by a black woman from those days and he turned it into a hit.
I can't believe that the peckawoods who compiled the book are necessarily TRYING to take credit for the works, but of course they were getting some money off of publishing the book. That's how they were raised. At least they acknowledged that these are songs created by African people taken as slaves.
Yes, they were white. Well to do white people from the North. They were also abolitionists who, recognizing the evil of slavery were committed to freeing the people held in bondage. Once the war began, they left their comfortable homes and went to the islands off the Carolinas to assist the newly freed people in their transition. While there, they compiled and transcribed this collection of works, preserving them for history. I don't feel they claimed credit for the music. I think they recognized the beauty, pain and humanity of the music and were inspired to preserve and share it. I'm proud of the fact that my Great-Grandfather and his brother, Canadians by birth and Scots by descent, joined the Union Army early in the war between the States.
I love this. I do think that the Civil War ended in 1868. So it was actually during the war when this was printed. Books are so valuable to the history of this and all countries.
1865
@pattywhite8644 ok miss "white" keep spewing the devil's tongue in my butt! Yeeee hawwww! Amen
This is such important part of American history. I am so glad PBS produces great content like this. ♥️🙏🏻
PBS has removed this from their app and it won't play anymore.
Those slaves shall be very rich in Heaven like the Beatitudes say. Rich and full of joy singing of our Lord forever!
The Cry of Israel
@@fuckoff81747 Its the sinful nature of man, not Christianity as the root, my leading point being slavery still goes on today. And just like the abolitionist in the past, today it is mostly christian groups going into slave territory to free them. The devil perverted the letter of Ephesians to make it say what it didn't mean for the plantation owners.
@@TubeFuzzyCheese glad you know bro. It's not Christianity but Christinization (Catholicism). But the Lord will redeem us soon, it's part of His will. APTTMH
Yes, indeed!
Those are our ancestors and we are not from afraica. We have always been on the island. We are the aboriginal copper colored indigenous native people of america. This is our Island homeland.
Thank you for sharing this. We need more content about these topics🙌🏿. We recently launched a channel about African heritage and culture to help spread the word✊🏿
My beautiful sisters and brothers
Simply; Beautiful.
Oh I wish I had a songbook like this!
GOD'S CHOSEN PPL
A BEAUTIFUL PPL
In our Hymnbook back in the 1960's, we had a full section of dozens of songs entitled 'Negro Spirituals'. That was in the Church of God (Headquarters in Anderson, Indiana). They were always some of my favorite hymns for us to sing. I wish unbelievers would realize that people who have been born again from the Spirit of God (not neccesarily all those who claim to be Christian) see other believers no matter the color, as one body. We may worship in different church buildings, usually do to different music and preaching styles, but we come together on special occasions. We had another body in the same denomination a few miles away, and we would get together for Sunday afternoons / evenings to sing and worship.
God bless in Jesus name!
This was very enlightening! Thank you very much!
Never forget the facts about the song Amazing Grace
You know amazing grace was written by a white person?
Yes it was a slave owner wrote it
Let's say it this way: a former captain of a slave ship, an Englishman. He never thought he could be free from his guilt, but God indeed forgave him. He then wrote this hymn, Amazing Grace. I do forget his name. You'll have to google it.
I'm bothered in how they are singing the songs like an opera or catholic choir...song it like our ancestors sung it! Whats the point of showing this if the songs are sung right? I promise my ancestors werent standing choir style in the field singing an opera full voice under a hot sun being whipped
I thought I was going to hear it in its genuine voice
I feel you. Thinking the same thing.
They are singing it the way HBCU glee cubs sing it. That was the style at the time.
AmorrBaby
Hi, I’m an old white woman who fell in love with “Black Gospel” music years ago. African Americans did sing, worship, and have services like “high church”. Listen to James Abbington’s choir. Many of the songs are done in the “white church” style.
Some of the African American churches have the best dressed choirs, the ushers dressed to the nines always with white gloves. Check out the convocations of the COGIC! Blessed
I see I wasn’t the only one thinking that about the choir.
The choir did their best but there aren’t many groups that could be formed and sing those songs with the emotions those slaves did.
I’m glad he found more information on his book.
AmorrBaby opera music came from us to
What a fantastic moving story.
JUDA IS THE PRAISE, JUDA IS MOURNING.
AMEN!!!!!
Great story on musical history.
It does my spirit good to see all the comments of my people waking up! Information is coming out right and left! Nobody could cause such a movement other than the Most High! What blessing to be alive to see His promise being fulfilled. I am blessed to be at your side as a witness. Q'am Yasharala! APTTMH!
Hebrew Israelite Pride!❤
What a time to be alive!
Fantastic documentary. For a British music fan of faith researching Gospel music etc this footage is gold. May the Lord bless you.
Loved this so interesting
“These songs were everything. He had to sing about his condition.” These songs are artistic and spiritual treasures to humanity.
BLACK People PRICELESS......
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Wow, I wish I had known this part of history before, wow.
This is our history that was hidden from God's chosen people. We are the true people of the Bible.
BETTER NOW THAN NEVER!
Those slave narratives are sold everywhere. They have been in bookstores for many years.
Excellent! Bravo! made me cry, private concert really touching
Ohh what marvelous informations!!! Precious story!!!!
Por favor, ative as legendas!
Also led to modern music check out the grandmother of rock and roll Sister Rosetta Tharpe😀🎷🐿
most genres come from this music in the US.
John D. Rockefeller adored Negro hymns loved these songs and created the Black Women College in Atlanta SPELLMAN COLLEGE named after his wifes last name where Martin Luther Kings Mom and Grandmother were among its prominent alumnus. Just wanted to put this out there. Im currently reading Titan: The Life of John D, Rockefeller, Sr. and that book made me come to UA-cam and watch this amazing video.
@@nevadapolite6517 we are not taught any of this in schools thats we are walking around brainwashed and hating each other
@@nevadapolite6517 well said
Please do deeper research on the Rockefellers.
They are not African, the are the true hebrews.
Hebrews were do they live?
They are not african they are herbrew isrealites
Nah they are Africans, I’m African and have knew these songs since I was a little girl from my African grandmother, they were defo African
bruh shut up lmao
MultiHowLow nah I’m alright styll👍🏾😂
"Plantation owners"? No, fam. They're called "enslavers". "Slave owners" and "Sadistic brute terroristic torturesome psychopaths" both work as well.
The song Roll Jordan Roll is literal because those people are not Africans, they are Hebrews and Israelites. Another twist in the history of slavery
Any-river-is-a-river
11:50 Lomas
I was at a Leon Bibb concert and he said that the order of the songs at evening meeting mapped out the escape routes to the north. For example... Down by the riverside would be the meeting place and Go tell it on the mountain would be the next part of the trip, etc. Very clever.
That's awesome to learn! Wow!
Interesting.
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Deuteronomy 28🙌🙏
10:00 watch the black and white minstrel show documentary to get context. It's how they got exposure
Great story!
I love looking at my people..honored to be if them!
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My "GOD" THE PAIN, HURT, SUFFERING & HATE WEVE DEALT WITH ! HEADS UP Y'ALL 💞
These are the true Israelites
A lot of "America's culture" is actually from African Americans. Its sad that we aren't taught this in our history classes, the world should know about this!
That's why The late President Magufuli wanted Tanzanians to start studying their history!
Black Americans are not Africans - they are the original American Indians, the Copper-colored people!
Slavery is still going on in Dubai may God have mercy on those who exploit people . Vegeance is the lord he will pay them
Christine Musana Amen..and the Sudan as well. Lord help them.
A lot of human trafficking in the US.
Your Lord doex not exist.
Africans should stay at home.
I go where I'm accepted. Where I'm unhappy or unwelcomed, I go where I'm accepted.
Good, go back to Europe, you would be accepted there. When you pay taxes and not even allowed to attend public schools, then there is a problem. They built their own schools and now you people are saying historical colleges and universities and racist, you people are pathetic!
@@straydog2002 you mean to go back to caves of the Caucus Mountains ✍👍
A BIG AMEN, WE ARE WHO WE ARE. THANK GOD THAT HE KNOWS!
America needs more education re: African American history, which is American history after all.
Learning American history does NOT negate anyone's individual, personal story.
Far from it! It simply binds us (U.S.) all as a nation of varied people with unique experiences.
In the case of African-Americans, the legacy is beyond harsh, and that must be acknowledged.
Thank you for preserving our history!
Just glad they finally added descriptions with source titles
Slave songs of the United States (1867)
Wayne Francis Allen et al
It remains in print, collected spirituals
So glad his mother collected artefacts
This is the fruit of redemptive suffering. If we could have this sound in our churches they would be filled.
Music 🎵 don't get any better than this
Black people from all other continents were living on this country now called America since BC times, not just the slavery industry!!!
"chattel"slave Institution. Chattel means Property. Property has value and is insured.
Absolutely circa B.C. Map of PANGEA shows EUROPEANS did not bring us here to Turtle Island.
It is interesting how the Democrats had the Supreme Court declare Blacks were not human and therefore could be enslaved. The Democrats did the same with unborn babies so they can be barbarically torn to pieces right up till the time of birth as not being human beings. Democrats says the child is not a human being till it departs the hospital. Jesus Christ is our only hope.
Romans 10:9-10 from the Bible: “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Val Lee of “val lee weblog” vallee7.wordpress.com
Pick and chose your words from the Bible.
Stop posting clickbait u fucktard last I check the GOP was the party of George Wallace and company after 1972, so I have no interest in your nonsensical conflation of Dredd Scott with abortion. Hell I wish abortion would’ve been universally permitted early enough to have made sure you got abortion.
If you don’t like abortion, then don’t get one. If you want to usurp the right of others to govern themselves, amend the constitution. We live in a democracy, and we don’t amend settled law with court decisions striking down earlier decisions. Even Dredd Scott had to be supplanted by the 14th amendment. So bottom line: go die faggot.
Democrats and Republicans were all racists. Let it rest please. They're still racist today.
Two sides of the same coin.
You actually used this to argue another issue? What a self absorbed white woman you are.
Val Lee : All white ppl are guilty.
They did not bring those songs over here. Why is people saying this crap? That is not even African songs
Probably because these songs were written by enslaved Africans after they were brought here. Dummy
I ain't no Israelite my ancestors came from West Africa.
Tien Shinhan facts! Jesus is Lord tho
The Israelites were taken into slavery from Western Africa..
then you are not gods chosen people
@@GrandadeeSmalls I'm Nigerian native and resident. Yoruba to be precise. I keep wondering why the enslaved kept such accurate memory of the ancient Yoruba religion of Orishas and their ADOS still practice it in the diaspora but kept no Hebraisms. I was shocked to see d wholesale cultural export in Brazil. Even food like akara had same Yoruba name. Same scenario in Cuba, Haiti etc. Similar case with the Gullahs of Florida. Was there any Hebraisms to keep?
We have no such history of being Hebrews.
No Hebrew artefacts have been found anywhere in West Africa, no cemeteries, no ruins, nothing. Whereas there's a trail of these left in past authentic Jewish settlements worldwide.
My father made me learn a lot of songs. Harry Belafonte did quite a few also.
let my people go America
Prayers for Hebrew Lord Joseph Lord of Lords King of Kings to already think about already owning America in Jeremy Odin Scott Hammer Armstrong McGuire Senior Name retroactive Law ty Jesus Christ name Amen
We should have more of these and they should be taught in schools. This is where real music began from the soul, that's why in my heart in my humble opinion I think it's called soul music
I honestly have a lot of reservations about a number of these songs being westernized and sung outside of their cultural context... so many of these songs are prayers, so many of them are about freedom and about escaping to that elusive aim. If I had to listen to a whole class of kids sing something like Liddy I'd probably have to leave. Same with many native songs... those with deep spiritual meaning and cultural context shouldn't be removed from those contexts by outsiders.
Are you all still sleeping, check those songs in that book. They sing of the bible, King David, the rivers, the people and places. How can you sleep, we were in slavery and forbidden to read and write, yet we sang of the word of our God. Our heritage was stolen and hidden from us, we are the Israelites. Wake UP
Isrealites
👀the Cry of Israel
@@ch-xl3xm Judah
ummm what instruments did they bring with them,,,,
A very interesting history of how Gospel began.
We did not come from afraica. We have always been here. We are the indigenous aboriginal natives of this Island. Not afraica stop calling God's people by words. We are the true people of the Bible. Israelites hebrew copper colored indigenous aboriginal natives.
Not everyone has always been here. Granted some are ancestors of those that traveled via king Solomon's naval ships but some are not. Even then israel is/was located in Africa so yeah all came from afica just some came a different way.
One. of the book's authors was named Garrison. I wonder if she was related to William Lloyd Garrison. They were both abolitionists and that's not a particularly common name.
She was married to his son. See her entry in Wikipedia and the 2015 biography by musicologist Samuel Charters: "Songs of Sorrow: Lucy McKim Garrison and 'Slave Songs of the United States'
@@jsbrules Thanks. I should have looked up the Wikipedia myself, of course. On the other hand, maybe others will read our comments and gain something from them.