Black Insights: Significant Literature by Black Americans, 1760 to the Present |
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... song ; all the mass joined with her , swaying . And the soldier wept . The third song is the cradle - song of death which all men know , - " Swing low , sweet chariot , " - whose bars begin the life story of " Alexander Crummell ...
... song ; all the mass joined with her , swaying . And the soldier wept . The third song is the cradle - song of death which all men know , - " Swing low , sweet chariot , " - whose bars begin the life story of " Alexander Crummell ...
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... Songs to the Seats of the Mighty ? Your country ? How came it yours ? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here . Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours : a gift of story and song - soft , stirring melody in an ...
... Songs to the Seats of the Mighty ? Your country ? How came it yours ? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here . Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours : a gift of story and song - soft , stirring melody in an ...
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... Song ( 1961 ) , Williams , like Ralph Ellison seven years earlier , won the Arts and Letters Fellowship of the American Academy in Rome , which provided for living expenses for a year or more in Italy ... Song John A Williams from Night Song.
... Song ( 1961 ) , Williams , like Ralph Ellison seven years earlier , won the Arts and Letters Fellowship of the American Academy in Rome , which provided for living expenses for a year or more in Italy ... Song John A Williams from Night Song.
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