"If you don't go, don't hinder me. I am leaving this place. I would
like company. If I have to travel alone, don't get in my way".
How do you survive leaving everything you know to try to
reconstruct your life and future in a new way? What do you carry
with you on your journey to the new place?
Migration as a theme looms large in twentieth-century African
American life. Bernice Johnson Reagon uses this theme as a
centering structure for four essays that examine different genres
of African American sacred music as they manifested themselves
throughout the twentieth century and within her own personal life.
The first essay examines the evolution of gospel music by looking
at the work of Charles Albert Tindley, Thomas Andrew Dorsey,
Reverend Smallwood Williams, Roberta Martin, Pearl William Jones,
and Richard Smallwood. In the next essay Reagon relates the story
of Deacon William Reardon and the prayer bands that carried the
tradition of South Carolina spirituals through the twentieth
century in the communities of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. The
concert spiritual tradition is the subject of the third essay, and
the final essay explores how stories about African American women
of the nineteenth century became a source of strength for Reagon in
her development as an African American woman, singer, fighter, and
scholar.
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