The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168095   Message #4060099
Posted By: Jeri
19-Jun-20 - 09:06 AM
Thread Name: Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Subject: RE: Swing Low Sweet Chariot
So slave owners and people who perpetuated slavery were bad,
so SLAVES were bad?

I have a 78 record of the Fisk Jubilee Singers doing this song in full-on "slave" dialect. I find dialect horrible, but I can imagine the practices of this, with all of these young black college guys with their educated voices. "No, Trevor, it's not "coming for to", it's "comin' fo' ta!" Where were you reaised? In a mansion or something?

If dialect is the issue, lose the dialect. Please!