Wade in the Water
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title:
Wade in the Water
text:
"Wade in the Water" is an African American jubilee song, a spiritual—in reference to a genre of music "created and first sung by African Americans in slavery." The lyrics to "Wade in the Water" were first co-published in 1901 in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers by Frederick J. Work and his brother, John Wesley Work Jr., an educator at the historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, Fisk University. Work Jr. (1871–1925)—who is also known as John Work II—spent thirty y
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encyclopedia
description:
African American jubilee song
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_in_the_Water
date created:
2006-08-21T05:09:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T17:20:25Z
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