Back in the Early days, where Black Africans and Americans were Slaves, they would use to sing Spiritual songs for house praises/church, they also Normally sing Worshipping songs when someone would die. A Spiritual is a type of religious song. They were sang in informal gathering of slaves in "praise houses" and outdoor meetings called "brush arbour meetings", "bush meetings", or "camp meetings".
At the meeting, participants would sing, chant, dance, and sometimes enter ecstatic trances.
They were used to......
- Uplift slaves
- Give them hope
- Church, Funerals, and if allowed Weddings
- And to relay secret messages to help them escape. Like Wade in the water
Research:
Harriet Tubman, née Araminta Ross, born in 1820, in Dorchester county, Maryland, U.S. died March 10, 1913, Auburn, New York, American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. After she had escape the Slavery, she also tried to save other slaves from slavery.
Spiritual song -Harriet Tubman used the song “Wade in the Water” to tell escaping slaves to get off the trail and into the water to make sure the dogs slavecatchers used couldn't sniff out their trail. People walking through water did not leave a scent trail that dogs could follow. Read the words of "Wade in the Water."
How are these events still significant today?:
- Some people still sing Spiritual songs for Funerals
- Families sing spiritual songs for weddings
- For Birthdays
- And also for other special cations
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