The power of a song in a strange land
- Written by Donna M. Cox, Professor of Music, University of Dayton
A studio group portrait of the Fisk University Jubilee singers.James Wallace Black/American Missionary Association
From the moment of capture, through the treacherous middle passage, after the final sale and throughout life in North America, the experience of enslaved Africans who first arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, some 400 years ago, was...