Slave Songbook : Origin of the negro Spiritual

Excerpt from PBS documentary History Dectectives Slave Songbook tracing the development of Negro Spirituals and cultural connections to Africa

[@marcustraore545]

Without music, our ancestors wouldn’t have survived the pain and anguish they went through during slavery.

[@willie.arnold9328]

1 put 6 was

[@evalaclair8260]

The more that thing change the more they stay the same. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for music

[@evalaclair8260]

And I am a old white guy

[@amaya9292]

@@drewhendley whatever

[@bnotebaangz9119]

We created it

[@madreep]

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.

[@m.patsyfauntleroy9645]

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[@leviebongt6458]

Please you may not need only your grand children. To hear , you need the work to hear , I will suggest you create a KZbin 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

[@charlieobimbo8310]

Maybe you could record them for us and future generations!

[@amenanaka6640]

This is how we communicate our culture here in Africa to our children from generation to generations because our culture is oral.

[@madreep]

@@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.

[@GeeBee212]

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.

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Metal, etc. So many important genres have came from it!

[@demetriushendry8051]

Including country music

[@arkis768]

Is the book Slave Songs the first known collection of early slave songs?

[@tumimoses9766]

Gospel🤨

[@MS-zp7bt]

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.

[@FizzVizard]

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.

[@reneilwemohonoe7668]

My mom has a copy of that same book and she taught us some of the songs when we were growing up. ❤

[@13579hee]

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!!!!!!!!

[@annalafayette838]

Wow! Lucky you💙

[@asiaj4678]

Don't let it go💚💙

[@keishalayne8844]

That's great.

[@mikekaatman3194]

That is amazing...

[@damianjackson7437]

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!

[@vin6956]

Very true, truly angelic..🙏

[@allanm2064]

Praise satan in my butthole yall! Yeee hawwww

[@snakemansnakes1]

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.

[@kwakuotempong7651]

Deeply touching,a reflection of the indomitable spirit of the African American ...!!

[@JLewis-jk5yw]

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.

[@jackieflynt995]

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. 💓

[@DavidModavidmoda]

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

[@nathlienharris4472]

Lord have mercy indeed my dear.Indeed. Peace and Blessings

[@yolandajohnson8685]

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

[@coriejohnson4434]

Thanks for sharing the light.

[@adaadiaz3017]

I love to see black people sing worship songs! I have always imagine that in heaven there are a lot of black people.

[@judithlewis1546]

@@adaadiaz3017 I 8in n6

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

@@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!

[@tulayamalavenapi4028]

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.

[@lindenpeters2601]

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.

[@MzIvorySeattle]

This brought tears to my eyes and heart

[@hazelljacobs9]

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.

[@debraragoonanan3749]

These beautiful people suffered so much.😰

[@charranwilliams9150]

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]

@@charranwilliams9150 Chill!! The majority of Caucasian can't even fathom this happening. We are not out to get you!! Slavery is over!!

[@iamhere1315]

And still suffering.. MAY OUR TRUE HEAVENLY FATHER JEHOVAH GOD ALMIGHTY CONTINUE BLESSING YOU ALL OF US IN JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN🙏🏼 PEACE&LOVE🕊

[@iamhere1315]

@@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!

[@caroljordan2886]

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 🎶

[@anyaw340]

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.

[@aaronwilliams6295]

@@anyaw340 I agree, thanks you for this correction!

[@myhairpeace8777]

Thank you for sharing this💚

[@user-mk9kj8yf6r]

"Wt in color" doesn't mean Yte race.

[@PedroSantos-vu9mg]

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.

[@constancehawkins3073]

Amen! Thank you Jesus.☝️🙏

[@Aprilforevergreen]

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.

[@Joanla1954]

@@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.

[@Aprilforevergreen]

@@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.

[@738polarbear]

There are NO chosen people by God . God chooses everybody . It is only certain ethnic groups that CALL themselves chosen . WRONGLY I might add.

[@mommyseastar5776]

“These songs were everything. He had to sing about his condition.” These songs are artistic and spiritual treasures to humanity.

[@bonniemoerdyk9809]

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.

[@Tyfron]

God bless in Jesus name!

[@nathanhouston8106]

A blessing to know 🙏 more about our history..God bless. I pray 🙏, that unity will prevail.

[@tigerpause2470]

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.

[@leviayisrael9222]

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!❤

[@SheepofChrist818]

God hates pride

[@znayJ]

What a time to be alive!

[@rockybumpy]

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.

[@elizabethgreen6046]

Q#

[@aarondigby5054]

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.

[@pascaledowling6309]

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 🙏

[@robbie-annwhite5356]

I sung songs written by Robert Louis Stevenson in the 1950s my teacher taught in a small GA school. I loved those songs.

[@pattywhite8644]

What faith is shown here! Never forget the trials of others.

[@dgformersinna8644]

Faith indeed!

[@tonycook8177]

these songs are deeply personal to me. these stories is my story.

[@schwifty98]

Nocap

[@lynnharr3911]

Those songs kept them from losing their minds. It was interpreted by their enslavers as "happiness."

[@znayJ]

Exactly

[@pattywhite8644]

Agree, it was their only hope. Never to be forgotten.

[@dgformersinna8644]

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.

[@vivianblack2951]

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.

[@dgformersinna8644]

That's awesome to learn! Wow!

[@tropicalstrings]

Interesting.

[@judithlewis1546]

@@dgformersinna8644 l.p. p9

[@eldermorris5221]

Mr Norris taught music at Morris collage in the 60s and He Knew his music great teacher

[@carlyork8185]

No one has a sound like us WE ARE JUDAH WE WERE THE MUSICIANS We are HIS people and the sheep of HIS pasture...

[@queenmommie8295]

We are Israel and Judah the 12 tribes of Yah.

[@MrSHowVIdeo]

So basically the slaves were inspiration for the many forms of music like blues and rock and roll

[@MrSHowVIdeo]

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

[@IconicCutz]

They were more than just an inspiration, they were the inventors of it.

[@increasepeace4996]

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.

[@increasepeace4996]

Wrong. Latin music is a fusion of Native American, African and European musical styles.

[@MrSHowVIdeo]

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 ..

[@eulinejames2776]

Educational research,knowing the past gives encouragement to the future. Blessings to all.🙏🏿❤🙏🏿

[@user-sl7ym1zq3n]

What an interesting and well done piece! I think everyone needs to see this!

[@algolightly115]

A-m£n!!! Your so right" cool. Are you from the 🇺🇸 USA.

[@jeffreese4194]

Oh I wish I had a songbook like this!

[@SimonMackUK77]

Fantastic documentary. For a British music fan of faith researching Gospel music etc this footage is gold. May the Lord bless you.

[@Uberrimaefidei]

This is such important part of American history. I am so glad PBS produces great content like this. ♥️🙏🏻

[@lindenpeters2601]

PBS has removed this from their app and it won't play anymore.

[@africadreamin]

What a fantastic moving story.

[@hum-a-hymnministry217]

This was very enlightening! Thank you very much!

[@NoNameThoughtOfYet]

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

[@cheryldouglas1370]

See the aolians from Oakwood University in Alabama.

[@messengerofelohyim1595]

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

[@queenmommie8295]

Speak the truth to Yah's chosen people HalayluYah APTTMHY 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾🏹🏹🏹🔥🧹💥⚔️.

[@geralkennedy]

We are Hebrew!

[@stephonwimbley6834]

Yes, yes, yes.

[@jamerl2]

Psalm 137:3. Shonuff family, now it's time to, ISAIAH 58:1 . And especially time to, 2 Chronicles 7:14 WAKE UP JUDAH !!

[@ainsworth5059]

Asholadani!

[@rudynegrete5658]

Excellent! Bravo! made me cry, private concert really touching

[@carolmarlin3852]

My great aunt sang some of these songs to me as a child & her grandmother sang them to her. My great great grandmother & her husband left Virginia before the Civil War & settled in Iowa looking for a Reformed church, & later, some of the "slaves" from Virginia came to visit them. An old photo of that time was entitled, "THE WHOLE FAMILY". And that shows there was love, real love, Christian love, in those times. And deep respect.

[@yourdaywillcome5694]

My beautiful sisters and brothers

[@characters7568]

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.

[@brucechakur6144]

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

[@liz3424]

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❤️🙏

[@algolightly115]

A-m£n!!!

[@shebrewdna5576]

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”!

[@tanshievlogs]

@@shebrewdna5576 I'm confused 😕

[@shebrewdna5576]

@@tanshievlogs by what??

[@gunnyd8135]

@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.

[@pattywhite8644]

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.

[@mikekaatman3194]

1865

[@allanm2064]

@pattywhite8644 ok miss "white" keep spewing the devil's tongue in my butt! Yeeee hawwww! Amen

[@d.williams6325]

Simply; Beautiful.

[@quris212]

Music...any music...has always calmed the spirit. It always changes the feeling in any situation. Thank God no one can take away a song.

[@richardlevert5772]

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

[@katiejo1095]

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.

[@jackiemcpherson2317]

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.

[@sandilobianco6734]

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

[@elieonaibahtyisrael5170]

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.

[@petelarosa282]

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.

[@rebeccagutierrez1960]

Amen!!!

[@earleansmith8608]

Amen Amen Amen

[@keilajew]

Ohh what marvelous informations!!! Precious story!!!!

[@niecymichelle1]

Our Ancestors knew where they come from. It was just a song but pass down oral history of crosses the Jordan River.

[@RepublicTeaRoom]

@The Begotten. Boy bye...israelite you are.

[@gilmarr23]

@@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... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZnLpY2DeqpomdU

[@radeeshabrown8744]

Great story on musical history.

[@boxgaming281]

GOD'S CHOSEN PPL A BEAUTIFUL PPL

[@ohmeowzer1]

Loved this so interesting

[@lollipop7458]

Wow! I absolutely love any antiquated artifacts so much. It’s so awesome to be enlightened on what & where our past entails; especially when they’re new & never before seen or even known. Like hide & seek incredible Easter eggs.

[@amusicment4829]

Wonderful video of this amazing history, thank you!

[@363Magi]

Those slaves shall be very rich in Heaven like the Beatitudes say. Rich and full of joy singing of our Lord forever!

[@ecstasyeats5811]

The Cry of Israel

[@TubeFuzzyCheese]

@@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.

[@ecstasyeats5811]

@@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

[@Nan-59]

Yes, indeed!

[@queenmommie8295]

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.

[@24POWERS]

Never forget the facts about the song Amazing Grace

[@straydog2002]

You know amazing grace was written by a white person?

[@jamesalexander9782]

Yes it was a slave owner wrote it

[@jointrumptrain8796]

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.

[@jhadziamfume6802]

My father made me learn a lot of songs. Harry Belafonte did quite a few also.

[@MaBessie]

I love this. Thank you

[@emanuelcollado1343]

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 KZbin and watch this amazing video.

[@emanuelcollado1343]

@@nevadapolite6517 we are not taught any of this in schools thats we are walking around brainwashed and hating each other

[@emanuelcollado1343]

@@nevadapolite6517 well said

[@RepublicTeaRoom]

Please do deeper research on the Rockefellers.

[@katrinabrie3514]

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.

[@jalenakeem5059]

@@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.

[@QavahYahu]

@@fuckoff81747 you truly LACK understanding

[@13579hee]

@@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

[@jointrumptrain8796]

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.

[@jefferyschirm4103]

Some were no doubt mistreated , buy most simply worked for room an board , many whites also !.

[@MrsSANDRALMOSLEYIII]

My "GOD" THE PAIN, HURT, SUFFERING & HATE WEVE DEALT WITH ! HEADS UP Y'ALL 💞

[@yourdaywillcome5694]

I love there songs I can listen all night to it beautiful

[@HueyFreeman7]

Thank you for preserving our history!

[@omalone1169]

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

[@anji123passion5]

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

[@nevadapolite6517]

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.

[@clarenceisaacs2857]

Wow, I wish I had known this part of history before, wow.

[@queenmommie8295]

This is our history that was hidden from God's chosen people. We are the true people of the Bible.

[@iamhere1315]

BETTER NOW THAN NEVER!

[@EdenSophia118]

Those slave narratives are sold everywhere. They have been in bookstores for many years.

[@intsikayethu495]

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✊🏿

[@abenadedemante9121]

Very moving. Thank God for the gift of music. It is indeed food for the soul.

[@sandraroberts7406]

JUDA IS THE PRAISE, JUDA IS MOURNING.

[@awhxdiane3451]

AMEN!!!!!

[@Netspin1]

I go where I'm accepted. Where I'm unhappy or unwelcomed, I go where I'm accepted.

[@straydog2002]

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!

[@sexxyvaldenis3653]

@@straydog2002 you mean to go back to caves of the Caucus Mountains ✍👍

[@12sisters1bride7]

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.

[@SandraKayeII]

No shame in their game, just money.

[@omggiiirl2077]

It disgusts me......they disgust me.

[@yvettejones4249]

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.

[@mamuwaldevoudoupractitione3518]

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.

[@mintyfresh3152]

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.

[@Jebbie1976]

Really interesting!! Wish you had the complete program.

[@farrahconstant3598]

You can look up in PBS.

[@Adee01]

Judah always praised God. Judah means praise.

[@helentorok8498]

I am grateful for all of the comments as each opens a view that I never examined before in sincerity, as so much was rewritten and or credited to non-Africans rather than Hebrew slaves like those I came to know in Nigeria a country believed to be the home of my ancestral roots going back to the mid-1700's. Much of my convictions are first-hand from family members

[@lolasobande8663]

I know this has been a while but I'm Nigerian native and resident. Yoruba to be precise. I don't know of any HEBREW slaves, here.

[@Cuthbert237]

@@lolasobande8663 You need to research Negroland and the Ouidah people and why the Portuguese called a peculiar people there, "Juda".

[@berthadaniels4155]

A BIG AMEN, WE ARE WHO WE ARE. THANK GOD THAT HE KNOWS!

[@who8480]

I love looking at my people..honored to be if them!

[@inezaugustoborges8786]

Eu

[@bihmthethird]

We were already here...

[@bettysutton8136]

A very interesting history of how Gospel began.

[@saracxrmo]

Por favor, ative as legendas!

[@1goldbaby]

BLACK People PRICELESS......

[@godsfavorite421]

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[@-linus1688]

Thanks for sharing!

[@johnburns2510]

Blessings To All Worthy Of Being Blessed

[@lindenpeters2601]

This clip is from Season 7 of the show. On the PBS app you can still watch any episode from the show, but this clip is nowhere to be found.

[@claudiocarrillomarquez2123]

what is the song of the start of video mannnssss?

[@mhiguelhorta]

Great story!

[@xannirose]

My maternal great uncle (George H. Sims) founder of Union Baptist church's choir, sang some of these spirituals. My paternal Aunt Elizabeth Booker, had a book of spirituals which I now have...

[@dgformersinna8644]

Wow! So the legacy can continue to be shared!

[@yourdaywillcome5694]

Music 🎵 don't get any better than this

[@sugkuk41]

What song is playing at 7:21 ?

[@marjorieallworth6172]

When I sang my firt solo as a little girl, I was hidden behind a screen. A white child dressed as an angel stood high on the stage opening her arms then , closing them as I finished the carol ! Honestly ✨🎶

[@blackhistorywalks]

wow!

[@Dontbecold]

Your parents should have known that a black excuse me Hebrew little girl will always remember the truth. 10 Commandments & his name is not "Hail Zeus". His original name is Yahshua. Read your bible. Sister of 12 Tribes of Israel.

[@marjorieallworth6172]

@@Dontbecold I'm sorry but, How does this relate to what I wrote?

[@abulayla1000]

@@marjorieallworth6172 you won't understand.... It appears that he/she/it is "speaking in tongues" which a euphemism for utter gibberish.

[@marjorieallworth6172]

@@abulayla1000 Thank you David Adams - I was worried that I had offended someone. Take care Marjorie ✨🎶🎶

[@mhiguelhorta]

Fantastic!

[@grannyjudi1]

I am writing a paper on slave song for Shakespeare club I am in....thank you to the woman who did this book...we owe her a huge debt...

[@rebeccagutierrez1960]

As a person born in the United States in the State of Illinois, Chicago, to be exact, I remember singing some of these songs in music class, for example, Michael roll the boat ashore, halleluyah.

[@aarondigby5054]

Michael "rowed" the boat ashore. A beginning song for most African Methodist children choirs, we were United Methodist and it was one of our first songs along with Jesus Loves Me.

[@Prophetbgg]

Please explain that there are no shaped notes. My grandfather taught music in our church from books which had shaped notes. Where did they come from.

[@estherkessler]

Very interesting!

[@georgetrotter1742]

This is a book 📖 is very good 😌 to read and learn the songs

[@terrelll.howard8660]

Very special.

[@maryjohnston-trainor9118]

This is the fruit of redemptive suffering. If we could have this sound in our churches they would be filled.

[@NWOConspiracyGroup]

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

[@Ivanizeify]

Any-river-is-a-river

[@omalone1169]

11:50 Lomas