Two things I love…together!

On my list of things I love are history and music, and as in the video below, there is one song that will stand out far above all others (and I could certainly blog about comparing this song to, for example, much of today’s contemporary Christian music, but that’s for another time): Amazing Grace.

An amazing lesson in the history of the Black Spirituals, and how that music affected the (white) man who wrote the words to Amazing Grace…and more importantly, a lesson on how we are all connected…

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On my list of things I love are history and music, and as in the video below, there is one song that will stand out far above all others (and I could certainly blog about comparing this song to, for example, much of today’s contemporary Christian music, but that’s for another time): Amazing Grace. An…

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  1. thanks for posting this clip. I am going to use it in my African American History class when we talk about John Newton and the slave ship.