Slave Hymns in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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# Lines
 Source, Author/Title
“Come saints and sinners, hear me tell”
1
 Camp-meeting hymn,
related (?) to “Heavenly Union”
“Die on the field of battle”
3
 Chorus of camp-meeting hymn
“O, I’m going to glory”
3
 Camp-meeting hymn
“O Canaan, bright Canaan”
2
 Camp-meeting hymn refrain
“O, had I the wings of the morning”
4
 Stanza of camp-meeting hymn
“I see a band of spirits bright”
4
 1852 Hymn Book #702, Wesley
“And let this feeble body fail”
“It’s the trumpet sound afore…”
1
 Line from camp-meeting hymn
“O, where is weeping Mary”
12
 Camp-meeting hymn, related (?) to “The
Hebrew Children” (Southern Harmony)
“Jerusalem, my happy home”
4
 1852 Hymn Book #721
“O there’ll be mourning, mourning…”
5
 Camp-meeting hymn
“Amazing Grace”
12
 J. Newton, 1779 (? “New Britain”
tune, 1835 Southern Harmony)
“When I can read my title clear”
12
 1852 Hymn Book #650, Watts
“Jesus can make a dying-bed”
2
 1852 Hymn Book #705, Watts
“Why should we start, and fear to die!”
“The year of Jubilee is come”
2
 1852 Hymn Book #563, Toplady
“Blow ye the trumpet”
1852 Hymn Book = Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church, Compiled by authority of the General Conference / Fourteenth Edition. Baltimore: Methodist Protestant Church, 1852.

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