Music through time (Spiritual song)

Slaves back in the day use to sing spiritual songs for house praises and they also used it for when people would die. Slaves became very religious people, church people so when they would sing they would add some bible verses to the songs they were singing. The way they would sing is that they would get into a group they would have bush meetings and there would be one leader who would sing while the others hum along. After the leader finish saying something the group would sing along with her, also when singing the song they would also do dances and sometimes they would enter ecstatic trance.

They were used for:

• Uplift slaves.
• Give them hope.
• Church, funerals and if allowed weddings.
• Relay secret messages to help them escape, like wade in you water.

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery, Tubman escaped and came back trying to help others escape approximately 70 enslaved people including family and friends. Using safe houses known as underground railroad, the underground railroad  was a network of secret routes and safe houses they were used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada.

Wade in water:

Harriet Tubman used the song Wade in the water to tell escaping slaves to get off the trail and into the water to make sure the dogs slave catchers used couldn't sniff out their trail. People walking through water did not leave a scent trail that dogs could follow. Read the words of "Wade in the Water."

It just about connecting it today because the black live matter and connecting the rappers and singers songs to the olden days for when they use secret meanings. We also still use it in church and other things.