Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America by Andrew Ward

Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America

Andrew Ward

493 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history music emotional informative slow-paced

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The Jubilee Singers were nine former slaves, many of them in their teens, who set off from Nashville in the fall of 1871 to save Fisk University from collapse. For months they worked the old Underground Railway's network of abolitionist congregati...

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