The slaves sing a hymn in praise of Lincoln.

We want them to sound exactly the way they did when slaves sang them in the fields and in church.

What the slaves sang at night after the labors of the day were not the rhythmic chants of the fields.

"I have been honored by a trust," sang the slave.

The slaves were singing a lament to a lost land, to thehome and loved ones they would never see again.

A sort of chanting, like you get when slaves sing as they work.

These characteristics are what developed blues, a sad song that slaves sung during their labor.

As these latter-day slaves sang the song, a single star suddenly became clear (as well as the lights of two distant planes).

The first slaves in the United States sang work songs, and field hollers.

Spirituals were the songs that the African-American slaves sang.