Music Describing Stowe's Writing

  

         I wanted to change some of my blogs up from what I have been writing about. So I decided to describe certain music styles in literature that fit with Harriet Stowe's writing. When I decided to write about a different topic and saw this choice on the list of possibilities, Stowe's writing immediately came to my mind. The reason I thought of her is that she wrote during a period when slave owning was a common practice and a sensitive topic. Their have been popular songs that the slaves would sing with each other to keep up the moral. Songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Wade in the Water" are still sung today in many different forms of music.
        These songs weren't just to keep their spirits up, but also to help some escape. Some of the songs held secret codes in them that would tell what directions to go for the underground railroad. I think this is a really ingenious strategy that enslaved African Americans used to escape wherever they were being kept. That is why I think their songs define that particular era, they held so much meaning to them in more ways than one.