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Spirituals
Websites
(Historical overview, with a few sample lyrics).
http://www.negrospirituals.com
Lyrics and WAV files for ~10 spirituals quoted in "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/christn/chsohp.html
Quarterly containing education, history, and news related to Negro Spirituals: subscription information, news, and reviews.
http://www.dogonvillage.com/negrospiritual/
Eyewitness account of lyrics and performance, from an article in the 1867 Atlantic Monthly.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TWH/Higg.html
Article from the Christian History Institute, with song lyrics.
http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps089.shtml
E-text including introduction, lyrics, and annotated music collected by William Francis Allen, 1830-1889, Charles Pickard Ware, 1840-1921, and Lucy McKim Garrison 1842-1877.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/allen/menu.html