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…
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.
It's an awesome message, not only about the song, but the redemption that inspired it.