Deeply felt. Don't know date/ history of this song. But your fantastic rendition evokes in me images of black men and women unjustly human trafficked to be in chains of slavery either crossing over in the bowels of those dark bloody slave ships, or in the all-day, back-breaking labor in the cotton fields under the fierce sun singing such "Negro spirituals" to survive, and to know they were not alone.
So beautiful!
Deeply felt. Don't know date/ history of this song. But your fantastic rendition evokes in me images of black men and women unjustly human trafficked to be in chains of slavery either crossing over in the bowels of those dark bloody slave ships, or in the all-day, back-breaking labor in the cotton fields under the fierce sun singing such "Negro spirituals" to survive, and to know they were not alone.