The Negro Spirituals folk songs are America’s oldest form of original music. It is not known when African-American slaves began creating and singing folk Spirituals. The Black minister, Wyatt Tee Walker, writes, “The best estimate of the earliest appearances of the Spirituals, as we know it, is 1760.†It is believed that the African-American slaves began singing and creating this early...
Friends of Negro Spirituals to release Oakland’s First Negro Spirituals Oral Histories to Mills College and Oakland Libraries
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