"Azizi, do you mean the pre-Civil War hymn (earlier than 1807)-
O who will come and go with me? With a chorus or verse:
O Canaan, Sweet Canaan."

Yes. I only know this song from reading about it. I'm assuming that this is the song that Frederick Douglass indicates that he sung {and the others who escaped freedom along with him}. However, I don't know if there is any documentation that this was the exact song that Douglas referred to.

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Willa, thank you for that information. Here's that blue clicky:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/allen/allen.html

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Q, I found lyrics for "Before I'd Be A Slave {Oh, Freedom} on the negrospirituals.com website. That website indicates that this song is "from « Old Plantation Hymns » by William E. Barton, 1899

Do you already have this information?

These lyrics may already be posted on a Mudcat thread, but I'll write them again in my next post.