SC Music Black spirituals , like white ones, grew out of nineteenth-century camp meetings where the races mingled freely.
Black spirituals are about trial, sorrow, and the hope for freedom.
Concert performances of spirituals by grounds like the Fisk Jubilee Singers introduced them to a wider public in the late nineteenth century. Soloists like Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson, and Paul Robeson broadened the audience. In the 1930s and 1940s the Library of Congress recorded spirituals surviving in parts of the South, especially the Sea Islands. Note Singing and Spirituals from South Georgia .