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Definition of Negro spiritual
1. Noun. A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.
Definition of Negro spiritual
1. Noun. (music) A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Negro Spiritual
Literary usage of Negro spiritual
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Junior High School Idea by Joseph King Van Denburg (1922)
"Dreaming Foster Swing Low Sweet Chariot negro spiritual Flow Gently Sweet Afton
Spilman Deep River negro spiritual MISCELLANEOUS SONGS Sweet and Low Barnby ..."
2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"The negro spiritual Speaks of Life and Death. Harper, 1947. Great in its simplicity,
this keen, inspirational interpretation of the spiritual as a unique ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"New Statesman 12:300-1 Ja 11 '19 Negotiable instruments. See Commercial
paper; .Moratorium 476-7 Jl '17 Negro songs Ancestry of a negro spiritual. L. Pound. ..."
4. Spiritual Magazine (1867)
"A negro spiritual PUNDIT. The New York Times of August 13th, 1867, contains an
account of a learned Negro named Said, an African, only 30 years of age, ..."
5. The Planter: Or, Thirteen Years in the South by David Brown (1853)
"... on reading over this passage on the honest- hearted negro's spiritual
capabilities, doctor, it strikes me ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"He writes on the negro's spiritual strivings, the dawn of freedom, meaning of
progress, the training of the black men, the black belt, the quest of the ..."
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