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Powerful, sacred songs that derived from the heart of the antebellum enslaved African were melodic outflowing of religious expression, passion, and the hope to be free. American Negro Spirituals, as originated in America, tell of sorrow, trials and tribulations, secrecy and hiding and hope for a sense of community.
Join Illinois Humanities' Road Scholar Connie Martin as she explains the connections of Plantation songs or American Negro Spirituals with meanings and interpretations of lyrics of some songs used in regions of the South that signaled a multiple of signs and tips that aided enslaved fugitives to find freedom.