The Songs That Crossed an Ocean
In 1871, nine young men and women from Fisk University in Nashville — most of them formerly enslaved — set out on a desperate concert...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 98.
In 1871, nine young men and women from Fisk University in Nashville — most of them formerly enslaved — set out on a desperate concert tour to save their school from financial ruin. They carried almost nothing: threadbare clothes, empty pockets, and the spirituals their parents and grandparents had sung in the fields and praise houses of the American South.…
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