negro spiritual

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Meaning

a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States

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Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the "paradigmatic Negro spiritual" because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries. Source: Internet

Then the orchestra grows quiet, and Elvis sings, almost a cappella, “All My Trials,” what would have been called in its day a Negro spiritual, a mother singing to her child, “So hush, little baby, don’t you cry. Source: Internet

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