Music Through Time

In Social Studies we have been learning about Slavery or Music Through Time.

Spirituals are different types of genres. For example Soul, RnB, Rap, Rock and Roll, and Gospel.  Spirituals were used by slaves for a long time since 1600-1895 and are still used today.  Slaves used spirituals to communicate and to help each other out to either escape or even just communicate with each other.

Who Is Harriet Tubman?
Well, Harriet Tubman was a woman born into slavery, she is famous for helping thousands of slaves escape, she used songs to send messages and to help the slaves, she helped the slaves escape through an underground railroad out of the slave states, the underground railroad isn't really a railroad there isn't any trains or roads there are just tunnels that are scattered and some lead to safe areas for the slaves.
 
2. Explain who Harriet Tubman and what the Underground Rail was
Harriet Tubman used "Wade in the Water"  to tell slaves to get into the water to avoid being seen and make it through. This is an example of a map song, where directions are coded into the lyrics. The secret lyrics that have the hidden meaning of the song is "Wade In The Water" because runaway slaves were better to wade in the water so slave catchers and dogs could not sniff them out.

Chorus:

Wade in the Water, wade in the water children.

Wade in the Water. God’s gonna trouble the water.
Who are those children all dressed in Red?
God’s gonna trouble the water.
Must be the ones that Moses led.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

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Who are those children all dressed in White?
God’s gonna trouble the water.
Must be the ones of the Israelites.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

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Who are those children all dressed in Blue?
God’s gonna trouble the water.
Must be the ones that made it through.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

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Music Through Time