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Negro spiritual

British  
/ ˈniːɡrəʊ /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Few if any in the audiences had ever heard a Negro spiritual before.

From Time Magazine Archive

Were you there when they crucified my Lord; a Negro spiritual in illustrations. © 4Oct44; A18339.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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