Joe thanks for that visual of the Jordan, I never would've known.

For the southern black convicts, rivers also held a special spiritual place on freedom in their hearts, of which they sang plenty of, the same as the slaves before them. If they could cross a river (which bordered most of the southern prison work farms) they'd have at least a hope of escape from a system that stilled dealt in slavery more than 100 yrs after it was abolished.

Barry