Here is the beginning of a full list of spiritual songs with lyrics and video. These songs served as spiritual elevation with a practical political and social edge. They helped give voice to an otherwise silenced spirit.

These songs were triumphant in overcoming a course, crude and regime of suppression and oppression of native spirituality. Amazing states of spiritual freedom were able to evolve in secret meetings. Away from the guise of their suppressors freedom arose. Members of a group stronger then their fickle oppressors sang the harmonies that spontaneously arose in a community of faith.

Where Christian doctrine had been used previously to enslave tow it emerged as a truth force with a sharp edge of liberation. Christianity become triumphant only when it it challenged those who preached forgiveness and long suffering to practice and live out what they taught.

Old Negro Spirituals

Negro Spirituals, Canton Spirituals, Old Negro Spirituals, African American Spirituals, Black Spirituals that start with A