Underground Railroad, Music through time

The use of spiritual is a type of religious song. they were sang in informal gathering of slaves in outdoor meeting called "brush arbor meetings," or "camp meetings". At the meeting, the participants would sing, chant, dance, and sometimes enter ecstatic trances.

They would used to.

1. Uplift slaves 

2. Give them hope

3. Church, funerals, and if allowed weddings

4. And to relay secret messages to help them escape. Like Wade in the water

What if these were used to be massage, a way to escape the slave's states, and it was written by Harriet Tubman. The message she uses WADE IN THE WATER was very effective and helped other slaves to escape the Slave's state. This was a message to cross through the water, it loses the scent where dogs cant track off the escaped slaves. She was wanted, dead or alive in the Slaves state.

 

Here's a link to my maps of how slavery starts