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Can I read The Book of American Negro Spirituals on EtoBox?
The Book of American Negro Spirituals by James Weldon Johnson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Book of American Negro Spirituals about?
In their 1925 book, The Books of American Negro Spirituals, James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson said that spirituals, which are "purely and solely the creation" of African Americans, represent "America's only type of folk music...When it came to the use of words, the maker of the song was struggling as best he could under his limitations in language and, perhaps, also under a misconstruction or misapprehension of the facts in his source of material, generally the Bible."
Who reads The Book of American Negro Spirituals?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James Weldon Johnson
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Published
- 1925
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction