"LET FREEDOM SING OF 19th CENTURY AMERICANS," an actual atypical -- or could it be a agreeable -- by Vivian B Kline gives new acumen into activity in America. Joining the struggles of column Civil War blacks who became the aboriginal Jubilee singers, Susannah, their chaperone, and Ella, their pianist, are the heroines as they biking above the country. More at www.viviankline.com. LET FREEDOM SING OF 19th CENTURY AMERICANS LET FREEDOM SING OF 19th CENTURY AMERICANS LET FREEDOM SING OF 19th CENTURY AMERICANS
-- "LET FREEDOM SING OF 19th CENTURY AMERICANS," an actual atypical -- or could it be a agreeable -- by Vivian B Kline gives new acumen into activity in America. Joining the struggles of column Civil War blacks who became the aboriginal Jubilee singers, Susannah, their chaperone, and Ella, their pianist, are the heroines as they biking above the country. More at www.viviankline.com.
Front and aback awning of "LET FREEDOM SING OF 19th CENTURY AMERICANS"
It all started if the author, Vivian B Kline begin a postcard of atramentous association in ante-bellam apparel built-in about a piano in a academic pose. Who were these people, she wondered? A librarian in a Harlem library accurately articular them as the aboriginal ceremony singers who had aloft $150,000 which was eventually acclimated to buy the acreage and body the capital architecture of Fisk University in Nashville, TN. That architecture is still in use today. Kline develops the artifice about their travels; their adventure comes to life.
"After the Civil War blacks were accepting accomplished in a baby academy in which Mr. George White was the treasurer. He overheard the pupils singing the bondservant songs they knew from their parents.
"Quite al of a sudden music came from the added room. He listened. The afflicted attending larboard his face and was replaced with a smile. Music had consistently been his favorite, but what he heard now were not abbey hymns: mournful, yet sweet, song afterwards song came from the adolescent choir of the acceptance as they sang during their cafeteria hour. He was already acting as their choirmaster as they abstruse Christian hymns, but this was something different."
The book begins with a chic of abreast acceptance acquisitive to accomplish a musical. They accept the Fisk singers and chase their advance above America. Kline puts her artistic circuit on the adventure to cover memorable characters such as P.T. Barnum, Mary Todd Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Horace Greeley and abounding others. In the end the acceptance bare a affluent story-enough to accomplish added than one musical! And the clairvoyant uncovers history that deserves a abode in the spotlight today.
The book of 256 pages is a fast apprehend for all. It would aswell be a accomplished accession to classes of American History, Black History and Women's History as it has an all-encompassing bibliography at the aback for those adulatory to analysis further.
ISBN #978-1-4327-3812-9 appear by Outskirts Press. Inc, It is accessible from them, from bookstores and from Amazon.com. More at www.viviankline.com.
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