On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals book cover

On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals

Pages: 128
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Published: 13 Feb 2007
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With the passion of a poet and the knowledge of a historian, Nikki Giovanni tells the story of Africans in America through the glorious words of spirituals.

Ever since she was a little girl attending three different churches, poet Nikki Giovanni has loved the spirituals. In  On My Journey Now , she paints compelling portraits of the lives of her ancestors through familiar songs such as "Go Down, Moses" and personal favorites such as "Ain’t Got Time to Die," celebrating a people who overcame enslavement and found a way to survive, to worship, and to build.   On My Journey Now  includes a foreword by Dr. Arthur Jones, founder and artistic program director of the Spirituals Project.

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