Negro spiritual
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, Lewis fears that “we have lost our way,” and turns to a Negro spiritual sung during the movement: “I’m so glad trouble don’t last always.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2019
It didn’t matter whether it was a Negro spiritual or something by the Beatles.
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2018
He was drawn to indigenous American forms, by which he meant the blues, the work song, the Negro spiritual and the show tune, and his compositions referred to those forms.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2013
In nearly every U.S. jukebox is a pre-Civil War Negro spiritual called Michael, which probably originated among slaves who traveled by boat each day between the Georgia mainland and their quarters on the offshore isles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Negro spiritual speaks of life and death.
From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.
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