Interesting discussion.

If any of you think this material or this topic should be included with other topics under study in the African American Spirituals permathread, would you please post a notation there to that effect so I can include it in the index. I can't make the judgment call based on what I've seen above, lacking the knowledge of those of you above, but I'd be happy to trust your gut on it whenever you want to submit this one.

~Susan