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on my journey now looking at african american history through the spirituals
the intimate unpretentious talk about familiar songs will grab readers who will want to find out more about the inspiring history . booklist starred review br ever since she was a little girl attending three different churches poet nikki giovanni has loved the spirituals . now with the passion of a poet and the knowledge of a historian she paints compelling portraits of the lives of her ancestors through the words of songs such as go down moses and aint got time to die celebrating a people who overcame enslavement and found a way to survive to worship and to build .