Hidden Messages in Negro Spirituals on the Underground Railroad

Schedule

Wed Feb 25 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

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DuPage County Historical Museum & Wheaton Park District Administration Building | Wheaton, IL

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Learn the connections of Negro Spirituals that signaled and aided freedom seekers as they headed to Canada.
About this Event

Powerful, sacred songs that derived from the heart of the antebellum enslaved Africans were melodic outflowing of religious expression, passion, and the hope to be free. Negro spirituals, as originated in America, tell of sorrow, trials and tribulations, secrecy and hiding, and hope for a sense of community.


Join Connie as she explains the connections of plantation songs, or Negro Spirituals with meanings and interpretations of lyrics of some songs used in regions of the South that signaled a multiple of signs and tips that aided freedom seekers as they headed to Canada.

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DuPage County Historical Museum & Wheaton Park District Administration Building, 102 East Wesley Street, Wheaton, United States

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