The Spiritual – Songs of Suffering and Solace

Air Date: Nov 19 2020

Public Domain — The Old Plantation is a North American folk art watercolor, believed to have been painted in the late 18th century on a South Carolina plantation depicting enslaved Africans on the North American mainland. The artist was John Rose, a slaveholder capturing a scene of what may have been on his plantation in what is today called Beaufort County.

Those enslaved in the ‘new world’ found over time an imaginary pathway to freedom, painfully and soberly longed for, and not necessarily during their earthly lifetime, but perhaps in the next.

Episode Credits

Dr. Jonathan Øverby Host
Dr. Jonathan Øverby Producer
Tom Blain Technical Director

The Spiritual – Songs of Suffering and Solace

Episode Credits

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