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2 days ago · Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for ...
May 30, 2024 · The research is centered around the development of Negro spirituals from the folk music of enslaved Africans in the United States to the art songs set for performance on the concert stage.
4 days ago · A group of enslaved Africans arrived in the English Virginia Colony in 1619, marking the beginning of slavery in the colonial history of the United States; by 1776, roughly 20% of the British North American population was of African descent, both free and enslaved.
May 10, 2024 · Locating Enslavers. To find information on an enslaved individual, the enslaver must be identified because references to enslaved individuals are most often found in the records of the enslaver.
2 days ago · From the arrival of the first Africans in early colonial times until after the American Civil War, most African Americans were enslaved.
May 11, 2024 · Using the folk song of Black Americans, namely the Negro Spirituals, as the foundation of an ethical-theological framework, this thesis poses one way for addressing the anti-Black structure prevalent in the Catholic Church in the United States of America.
May 29, 2024 · Through application of plurality, we can better study people's multiple ‘Middle Passages' from the ancient silk roads to the slave castles and forts along the African littoral in a system of movement that does not belittle the horrors of the Atlantic oceanic passages.
