Kingdom Coming
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kingdom-coming-172-9799493
title:
Kingdom Coming
text:
"Kingdom Coming", or "The Year of Jubilo", is an American Civil War-era song written and composed by Henry Clay Work (1832–1884) in 1861. It was published by Root & Cady in 1862 and first advertised in April by the minstrel group Christy's Minstrels. Narrated by Black slaves on a Confederate plantation, "Kingdom Coming" recounts their impending freedom after their master disguises himself as a contraband and flees to avoid being captured by Union troops. It is a minstrel song, written in African
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American Civil War song by Henry Clay Work
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Coming
date created:
2006-09-27T21:30:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T20:51:08Z
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