{"id":203,"date":"2008-07-22T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2010-06-16T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T17:12:32","slug":"connecting-spirituals-to-the-slave-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/07\/22\/connecting-spirituals-to-the-slave-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting Spirituals to the Slave Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the use of spirituals as coded &#8216;road maps&#8217; for the Underground Railroad is contentious, it can be fruitful to use these &#8216;documents&#8217; in the classroom as a key to understanding how songs were important in the lives of slaves.<\/p>\n<p>One site that examines the different purposes and meanings of these historical records is <a href=\"http:\/\/ctl.du.edu\/spirituals\/History\/\">Sweet Chariot: The Story of the Spirituals. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The site explores the history of spirituals, reincarnations of these songs in the 20th century Civil Rights movement and includes sound files of the many spirituals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctl.du.edu\/spirituals\/Freedom\/\">The &#8216;Freedom &amp; Equality&#8217; section <\/a>highlights the use of spirituals as: expressions of protest, sources of inspiration and motivation&#8230; both of which are useful in thinking about the psychological aspects of slaves deciding to take the risk of pursuing their own freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the use of spirituals as coded &#8216;road maps&#8217; for the Underground Railroad is contentious, it can be fruitful to use these &#8216;documents&#8217; in the classroom as a key to understanding how songs were important in the lives of slaves. One site that examines the different purposes and meanings of these historical records is Sweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,77,174],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-recent-scholarship","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}