From: khematite@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, 7 February 2023 at 14:43:36 UTC-5, Rachel wrote:   
   > Back in very the beginning, as you say Dylan is referring to, so let's   
   narrow this down say, make it easy, the first 17th century for African   
   Americans ONLY, that gives us almost a full hundred years, nearly an entire   
   century we are talking about here,    
   who taught these new arrivals and "immigrants" English and the Bible, and   
   imbued them, these broken cargo ships of black slaves arriving en masse from   
   Africa in the beginning, a long time ago, "once upon a time," with this   
   all-pervasive "religious    
   feeling" you claim Dylan says they had, a core belief in God apparently being   
   the cornerstone for this feeling, and who developed the incipient canon of   
   spirituals? Where did this music come from? (17th century)    
   >    
   > Or is Dylan saying once they all arrived here, the metaphor is that this   
   religion feeling was everywhere in America, "in the water and in the air," so   
   to speak, and they all got off the ships, took big deep breaths, fell down and   
   kissed the ground, and    
   said for all intents and purposes, "Hallelujah?"   
      
      
   https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197495/   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/t-magazine/black-spirituals-p   
   etry-resistance.html#:~:text=The%20spiritual%20is%20a%20combinat   
   on,which%20led%20to%20hip%2Dhop.   
      
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