NEGRO SPIRITUALS.
TOMB OF LIVINGSTONE. WESTMINSTER ABBEY SCENE. LONDON. May i. There was a remarkable incident in Westminster Abbey this afternoon, when the dean and canons assembled at Livingstone's tomb, while 40 negroes and negresses sang spirituals. They were students at Hampton Institute, founded in America in 1868, to educate newly-freed slaves. "Don't Bo Weary, Traveller, Come to Jesus," and other passages of six-sectioned spirituals made a wonderful appeal. They echoed amid the pillars and vaults of the Abbey Church, which was crowded for the occasion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20556, 6 May 1930, Page 11
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86NEGRO SPIRITUALS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20556, 6 May 1930, Page 11
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