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Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Slaves Took on the World

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Changing minds one song at a time. The 1800s were a dangerous time to be a black girl in the US, especially for those who were born a slave. Ella Sheppard used to be any such girl, but her circle of relatives bought their freedom and moved to Ohio where slavery used to be illegal; they even scraped enough money together to send Ella to school and buy her a piano. In 1871, when her school ran out of money and used to be on the point of closure, Ella became a founding member of a traveling choir, the Jubilee Singers, to lend a hand raise funds for the Fisk Free Colored School, later referred to as Fisk University. Framed within Ella’s inspiring story, Give Me Wings! is narrative nonfiction at its finest, taking readers through certainly one of history’s most tumultuous and dramatic times, touching at the Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction Era.
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