Negro spiritual

British  

/ ˈniːɡrəʊ /

noun

1. a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South

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Example Sentences

Sitting in front of my black-and-white television, the girls and I felt goose bumps all over us as gospel singer Mahalia Jackson sang an old Negro spiritual, “I Been Buked and I Been Scorned,” and we heard the words of what would come to be known as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

From Literature

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring -- when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children -- black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics -- will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

From Fox News

“It wasn’t a Negro spiritual that got my people out of chains. It was war,” Tay Anderson, a Denver Public School Board member in his 20s, yelled into a megaphone at a rally in Denver on Friday evening.

From Washington Post

“And then he brought out a gospel choir and started quoting a black Negro spiritual.”

From Washington Post

And all of that life is in their music, which, thanks to Dorsey’s innovation, weds the plaint, woe and human upside of the Negro spiritual with the rhythm of the blues.

From New York Times