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2 honored guest shares my
love of the Negro Spiritual. I
concluded therefore that this choice could also
serve as a special tribute.

In the many writings
that I have encountered
in my research of the Negro Spiritual it seems
to be agreed that the Jewish
concept of life made a
profound impression on the
slave, perhaps because he was himself in bondage.
To quote from a famous author
on this point "God was at work