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The Story of the Jubilee Singers [Electronic Resource]: with Their Songs C^c^Hjvv\a\£</| to^ \^\Xu A^d ^> \AXx*A*-V« VmA FISK UNIVERSITY'S GREAT NECESSITY. Fisk University is emphatically a Missionary Institution. The people in whose interest it has been founded were, six- teen years ago, slaves. The most of the students are depend- ent upon themselves, and must earn their own support while securing their education. The colleges of no section of our country rely upon their students, even though wealthy, for the salaries of professors. Colleges and Theological Seminaries must be endowed, or raise the larger part of their annual ex- penses by constant appeals to the liberality of their friends. The current expenses of Fisk University have, thus far, been principally met by the American Missionary Association, but with the hope that the success of its work would create for it friends who would gladly endow it. The institution is most favorably located wfth respect to healthfulness of climate, accessibility, and surrounding influences. Nashville is very properly called the Athens of the South, because of the num- ber and importance of its educational establishments. Fisk University has a successful history of fifteen years of work and growth. It has its beautiful site of twenty-five acres and Hall Jubilee ; Livingstone Missionary Hall is being erected, and now it needs adequate endowment. We present, to all who have money and wish to use it in the interest of humanity, this opportunity of investing money in a permanent form, to do a noble work in behalf of Christian education for the cen- turies to come. We invite all who desire to help Fisk Univer- sity, to come, if possible, and see its work for themselves. The magnitude of the interests centred in such an institu- tion cannot be overestimated in their relations to the welfare of our own country. To the millions of recently emancipated colored people of the South mttst be given a Christian educa- tion, or the nation must suffer far more in the future than in the past from the curse of slavery. E. M. CRAVATH, Nashvillb, Tenn., October, 1880. President. 1 - Jg ]}• ., pit. THE STORY OF THE JUBILEE SINGERS; WITH THEIR SONGS. BY J. B. T. MARSH. Btmsri! <£tutton. EIGHTY-FIFTH THOUSAND. BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. Cfre Htoerst&e Press, Cantiritoge. NOTE. This volume is in part an abridgment of the two Jubi- lee Histories which were written by the Rev. G. D. Pike, and which have had a wide circulation, one giving an ac- count of the first campaign in America, and the other of the first visit to Great Britain. But the interval between these two narratives is here bridged over, and the story is brought down to the return of the Jubilee Singers from Germany The personal histories have been more fully written out, and a large number of new songs have been added, including several of the most popular pieces ever given in the Jubilee concerts. J. B. T. M. — CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. pxoa Our Argonauts. — The Real Significance of the War. — The " Contrabands " and the Boys in Blue. — Hunger for the Spell- ing Book. — The Heroines of the Freedmen's Schools. — Missionary Work I CHAPTER II. THE FORLORN HOPE. The Founding and the Founders of Fisk University. — Buying a Site on the Sly. — Hospital Barracks turned into School- Handcuffs sold to buy Testaments. — Full and Rooms ; A Busy Hive. — A Troublesome Problem. — The Man who Un- dertakes to Work it Out. — Experiments with the Student Choir. — The Forlorn Hope starts 8 CHAPTER III. ADRIFT ON STORMY SEAS. The Captain and his Company. — The Beginning at Cincinnati. Enthusiastic Audiences, but Light Receipts. — Insults at Ho- tels. — Ups and Downs, especially " Downs." — Uncouth Out- fits. — Doubting Friends who sit near the Door. — The Man- of-all-Work. — He has Good Grip 16 CHAPTER IV. LIGHT IN THE EAST. Before the Council at Oberlin- — Seed sown in Good Ground. — The Concerts at Cleveland and Columbus. — A Friend in — vi CONTENTS. rsam Need. — The Company christened ; a Good Night's Work. — Free Concerts, and, as usual, Small Collections. — A Glimmer of Light. — Among Friends at New York. —" Beecher's Negro Minstrels." — Sunrise in the City of Churches . 34 CHAPTER V. SUCCESS AT LAST. Triumph after Triumph. — A Furore for making Presents. — A Distinguished Lecturer loses his Audience, and follows them to hear the Singers. — Guests of a Governor One Day, and turned out of a Hotel the next. — Singing for President Grant and Parson Brownlow. — Floating on a High Tide. — The Ju- bilee Songs whistled and sung Everywhere. — Twenty Thou- sand Dollars for the Three Months' Work • • • • 33 CHAPTER VI. THE SECOND CAMPAIGN. At the Boston Peace Jubilee. — Hisses drowned in Applause. How an Insult was Answered. — Friends in High Places at Philadelphia. — A Dining-Room Concert ; Reserved Seats for the Waiters. — Caste Indignities at Baltimore and Princeton. — " " Servants who could not wait on Nagurs ; Christian Peo- " ple who could not say, " Have Mercy on us Miserable Sinners in the same Pew with them. — Fort Gillem makes way for Ju- bilee Hall. — Another Twenty Thousand Dollars secured. — Preparations for going Abroad 40 CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST VISIT TO LONDON. A. Helping Hand from the Earl of Shaftesbury. — The Prepara- tions for the First Concert. — Its Complete Success. — Guests of the Duke of Argyll. — Singing for the Queen. — Memo- rable Hospitalities. — Entertained by Dean Stanley and George MacDonald. — Mr. Gladstone introduces the Singers to a Dis- tinguished Company. — And excuses himself from the Lord Mayor's Banquet to receive them as his Guests.— Good Words from Dr. Moffat, and kindly Favors from Dr. Allon and Newman Hall. — In Mr Spurgeon's Tabernacle ; a Song sug- gests a Sermon .... .48 CONTENTS. vil CHAPTER VIII. A BUSY WINTER IN GREAT BRITAIN. PAG> On the Way to Scotland. — Crowded Concerts at Hull, New- castle, and Sunderland. — Hospitalities at Castle Wemyss. — Lord Shaftesbury again renders Valuable Service. — A Jaunt into Ireland. — Concerts at Belfast and 'Derry. — Distin- guished Attentions at Glasgow and Edinburgh. — Singing in Mr. Moody's Meetings. — The Harvest in the Midland Coun- ties. — An Avalanche of Invitations to give Concerts. — The Burden breaks down the Working Force. — The Death of Mrs. White. — Closing Concerts. — Nearly $50,000 carried Home 6a CHAPTER IX. OVER THE OCEAN AGAIN. Results of the First Decade of Work at Fisk. — Jubilee Hall com- pleted.— Success increases the Needs. —The Singers take the Field again. — Farewell Tour in the States, and Departure for England.—An Enthusiastic Welcome in London. —Singing in the Moody Meetings ; a Month of Revival Work. — An Au- tumn in Scotland. — The Old Enthusiasm of Old Friends, and the Equal Heartiness of New Ones. — Overflowing Au- diences at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Inver- ness. — The Jubilee Sunday-School Mass Meetings. — First Visit to Dublin ; which gives a Genuine Irish Welcome. —An Afternoon at Hawarden Castle.—Subscriptions for Livingstone Missionary Hall. — A Scouting Excursion on the Continent — Two Months in Holland. — The Story and the Songs trans- lated into Dutch. — Distinguished Attentions . -75 CHAPTER X. EIGHT MONTHS IN GERMANY. Pieparations for Work at Berlin. — Dinner Parties and Recep- tions. — An Eventful Afternoon ; Audience with the Emperor. — The Domkirche and Sing-Akademie opened for the Singers, — The Verdict of the German Critics.—The Welcome from the Religious Public. — A Visit with Professor Christlieb at Bonn. — Attentions from the Princess Alice ; Another Meeting with Vlii CONTENTS. PAO« the Prince of Wales. — The King and Queen of Saxony at the Jubilee Concerts. — The Good Results of the Trip through Germany. — Homeward Bound 90 CHAPTER XI PERSONAL HISTORIES OF THE SINGERS. The Children whom the Proclamation of Emancipation set free. — The New Life which the Singers entered. — Ella Shep- pard. — Maggie L. Porter. — Jennie Jackson. — Georgia Gor- don. — Thomas Rutling. — Frederick J. Loudin. — Mabel Lewis. — Minnie Tate. — Benjamin M. Holmes. — Isaac P. Dickerson . 101 THE JUBILEE SONGS ... ia 5 ; THE STORY OP THB JUBILEE SINGERS. CHAPTER I. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE The story of the Jubilee Singers seems almost as little like a chapter from real life as the legend of the daring Argonauts who sailed with Jason on that famous voyage after the Golden Fleece. It is the story of a little company of emancipated slaves who set out to secure, by their. singing, the fabulous sum of $20,000 for the impoverished and unknown school in which they were students. The world was as un- familiar to these untraveled freed people as were the countries through which the Argonauts had to pass the social prejudices that confronted them were as terrible to meet as fire-breathing bulls or the war riors that sprang from the land sown with dragons' teeth ; and no seas were ever more tempestuous than the stormy experiences that for a time tested their faith and courage. They were at times without the money to buy needed clothing. Yet in less than three years they 2 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. returned, bringing back with them nearly one hun dred thousand dollars. They had been turned away from hotels, and driven out of railway waiting-rooms, because of their color. But they had been received with honor by the President of the United States, they had sung their slave-songs before the Queen oi Great Britain, and they had gathered as invited guests about the breakfast-table of her Prime Min- ister. Their success was as remarkable as their mis sion was unique. The civil war which broke out in the United States, in ;86i, was avowedly waged, on one side to overthrow the Union of the States, and on the other to preserve it.
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