Tag: Swing Low Sweet Chariot

• What They Listened To: 1873

  New takes on old tunes.

  Adrienne Morris

  September 18, 2017

  Music They Listened To (in my novels), United States History

  Fisk Jubilee Singers, Home on the Range, Neil Young, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, what music writers listen to, Writing

• A Purpose and a Prayer–Freed Slaves Who Saved a School

  Taking every penny from the school treasury  to pay for their traveling expenses the Fisk Jubilee Singers set out on a mission to ensure the continuance of the school they dearly loved. Only a few months after the end of the Civil War John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P.…

  Adrienne Morris

  October 28, 2014

  Men, United States History, Women

  Bravery, Christianity, Civil War, faith, Fisk University, heroes, Jubilee Singers, Life, missionaries, Music They Listened To (in my novels), Swing Low Sweet Chariot