Spiritual (music)
Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are religious (generally Christian) songs that were created by enslaved African people in the United States.
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“The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)