The Trouble I've Seen: The Big Book of Negro Spirituals

The Trouble I've Seen: The Big Book of Negro Spirituals
by Bruno Chenu

The Trouble I've Seen: The Big Book of Negro Spirituals
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Author: Bruno Chenu
Foreword: Cain Hope Felder
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-06
ISBN: 0817014489
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Judson Press

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Book Review: Studying the origins of the spirituals
Summary: 5 Stars

Written by Assumptionist priest and theology professor Bruno Chenu of France, The Trouble I've Seen: The Big Book of Negro Spirituals is an extraordinary exploration of the origin and history of Negro spirituals. Studying the origins of the spirituals particularly during the North American slave trade from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, and the common themes found among approximately 6,000 different spirituals, and drawing upon the personal testimonies of free and former slaves to flesh out its extrapolations, The Trouble I've Seen offers a unique and profound contribition to religion and spirituality history and reference shelves. The full text of 200 spirituals and a music CD of eighteen spirituals round out this truly remarkable and devoted compendium.
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Bruno Chenu provides an extraordinary record of the origin and history of Negro spirituals and offers exceptional historical and sociological insights into their meaning. Section One focus on the origin of the spiritual by examining the odyssey of the North American slave trade from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Section Two features an exhaustive study of the various themes found within the spirituals, which number today at over 6,000. In the final section, Chenu provides a glimpse into the very soul of the slave through hymns, prayers, and the astonishing personal testimonies of slaves. The reader will see the formation of the spiritual up close. The collections of stories and the interviews with free and former slaves that were used as research for The Trouble I've Seen will undoubtedly leave a profound and memorable imprint. This is a resource no collector of African American books should be without.

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