SweetSue92
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Umm. The British Empire was largely sustained on slavery right up until 1833 but okay.
No I do not teach the messages sent in white spirituals. You are asking me now to teach not music, but race issues. In elementary school. I briefly touch on this for MLK day but generally, no, I'm not going there with elementary school students. The African-American Spiritual had a profound effect on everything that came after, musically. White Spirituals did not.
The British Empire is not where we live. You are teaching race issues when you teach what you do about black spirituals.
I totally agree but you made a factually inaccurate statement so I corrected it.
There was nothing factually inaccurate about these words:
America has a constitution and generations of people who want to teach how this nation was founded on freedom and equality. But it wasn't.
And the British Empire is gone.
K I don't know what your point is for the purposes of this thread. I'm not teaching that "this nation was founded on freedom and equity"....that's not what I teach. This thread is about what I teach.
Teaching Slavery in School--Sensitivity v. Erasing History
This is the title of your thread. Freedom and Equality has everything to do with it.
AMAZING GRACE
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind, but now I see
‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed
Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come
‘Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home
The Lord has promised good to me; His word my hope secures
He will my shield and portion be as long as life endures
Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail, and mortal life shall cease
I shall possess, within the veil, a life of joy and peace
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, the sun forbear to shine
But God, who called me here below, will be forever mine
When we’ve been there ten thousands years, bright shining as the sun
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise than when we’d first begun
ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT WINGS
I got a robe, you got a robe
All o' God's chillun got a robe
When I get to heab'n I'm goin' to put on my robe
I'm goin' to shout all ovah God's Heab'n
Heab'n, Heab'n
Ev'rybody talkin' 'bout heab'n ain't goin' dere
Heab'n, Heab'n
I'm goin' to shout all ovah God's Heab'n
I got-a wings, you got-a wings
All o' God's chillun got-a wings
When I get to heab'n I'm goin' to put on my wings
I'm goin' to fly all ovah God's Heab'n
Heab'n, Heab'n
Ev'rybody talkin' 'bout heab'n ain't goin' dere
Heab'n, Heab'n
I'm goin' to fly all ovah God's Heab'n
I got a harp, you got a harp
All o' God's chillun got a harp
When I get to heab'n I'm goin' to take up my harp
I'm goin' to play all ovah God's Heab'n
Heab'n , Heab'n
Ev'rybody talkin' 'bout heab'n ain't goin' dere
Heab'n, Heab'n
I'm goin' to play all ovah God's Heab'n
I got shoes, you got shoes
All o' God's chillun got shoes
When I get to heab'n I'm goin' to put on my shoes
I'm goin' to walk all ovah God's Heab'n
Heab'n , Heab'n
Ev'rybody talkin' 'bout heab'n ain't goin' dere
Heab'n, Heab'n
I'm goin' to walk all ovah God's Heab'n
BEAMS OF HEAVEN (SOME DAY)
Beams of heaven, as I go, / Through this wilderness below / Guide my feet in peaceful ways /
Turn my midnights into days / When in the darkness I would grope / Faith always sees a star
of hope / And soon from all life's grief and danger / I shall be free some day
I don't know how long 'twill be / Nor for what the future olds for me / But this I know, if
Jesus leads me / I shall get a home some day
Often times my sky is clear / Joy abounds without a tear / Though a day so bright begun /
Clouds may hide tomorrow's sun / There'll be a day that's always bright / A day that never
yields to night / And in its light the streets of glory / I shall behold some day
Harder yet may be the fight / Right may often yield to might / Wickedness awhile may reign /
Satan's cause may seem to gain / There is a God that rules above / With hand of power and
heart of love / If I am right, He'll fight my battle / I shall have peace some day
Burdens now may crush me down / Disappointments all around / Troubles speak in mournful
sigh / Sorrow through a tear stained eye / There is a world where pleasure reigns / No
mourning soul shall roam its plains / And to that land of peace and glory / I want to go some
day
BEFORE I’D BE A SLAVE (OH, FREEDOM)
Before I’d be a slave
I’d be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord
And be saved
O, what preachin’!
O, what preachin’!
O, what preachin’ over me, over me
O, what mourning…
O, what singing…
O, what shouting…
O, weeping Mary…
Doubting Thomas…
O, what sighing
O, Freedom…
Songs about a better life after this one where there is no slavery and all are free and equal.
That's what those spirituals were all about.
I hope you realize that Amazing Grace was about as far from an African-American Spiritual as you can get...???