A recital based on songs Lincoln heard at a contraband camp (a refuge for escaped slaves), including "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," "Every Time I Feel the Spirit," "I Thank God that I Am Free at Last," "John Brown's Body," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," "Didn't My God Deliver Daniel," "Go Down, Moses," "I Ain't Got Weary Yet," "I've Been in the Storm So Long," "Steal Away," and "Praise God from Whom Blessings Flow."

Presented by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as part of Mystic Chords of Memory: Abraham Lincoln and the Performing Arts