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Emancipation's Jubilations: Spirituals and Songs that Led a Nation


The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

James Martin, Baritone
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023

Tickets are free and available on the day of the event on a first come, first served basis.

For more information:
212-870-1630
nypl.org/lpaprograms
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

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