Trivia 6-24-2020

[Trivia Master]

In April 1865, a great ceremony was held in Charleston celebrating the end of the war where it began. In addition to the many military leaders and politicians, prominent Abolitionists participated. William Lloyd Garrison spoke to a crowd at the former Slave Market and led them in singing two songs. What were the songs?

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[Llewellyn]

Roll, Jordan Roll.

John Brown's Body

 

[Brenal]

Roll, Jordan, Roll and John Brown's Body

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[hughes]

Heron Mande
O de Lawd has cotch me under de arm

Edit - One of these choices was revised in a subsequent post, but only one of them.

hoosier

 

[ErnieMac]

What were the songs? Roll, Jordan Roll and John Brown's Body.

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[captaindrew]

"Roll, Jordan, Roll" and "John Brown's Body" https://books.google.com/books?id=D...a0KHcP9AMQQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[FarawayFriend]

The songs were: "Roll, Jordan, Roll" and "John Brown's Body"

From:
The Seven Day Scolar : the Civil War

 

[DBF]

The Two Songs: "Roll, Jordan, Roll"; "John Brown's Body"
(Link) - The Seven-Day Scholar: The Civil War: Exploring History One Week at a Time, by Dennis Gaffney, Peter Gaffney

 

[stuart1861]

Roll, Jordan, Roll & John Brown's Body

 

[John S. Carter]

John Brown's Body and My Eyes have seen the Coming of the Glory of the Lord

Edit - "My Eyes have seen the Coming of the Glory of the Lord" is an alternative lyric set to the same tune as "John Brown's Body."

hoosier

 

[JOHN42768]

'The Day of Jubilo hab Come,' and 'John Brown's Body.'
source: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2001.05.0205:chapter=5

Edit - The indicated source indicates that these two songs were sung at a gathering at Mitchelville, the day before the Sumter festivities. One of the songs was sung at the Slave Market in Charleston the next day, but the other wasn't.

hoosier

 

[General Casey]

"Roll, Jordan Roll" and "John Brown's Body"

Source: David Detzer, Allegiance, pg. 317

 

[Poorville]

HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC - The John Brown Air (John Brown's Body – The Battle Hymn of the Republic)

STAR OF LIBERTY – Watchman! tell us of the night

Source: New York Times May 10, 1865
https://www.nytimes.com/1865/05/10/archives/the-anniversaries-important-session-of-the-antislavery-society.html

Edit - The indicated source shows that these hymns were sung at a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society held at the Church of the Puritans. It doesn't say where the Church of the Puritans was located, but the question was based on a meeting at the Slave Market in Charleston, which seems to have been a different meeting.

hoosier

 

[Ole Miss]

1) 'The Day of Jubilo hab Come'
2) ' John Brown's Body'
Regards
David
Source
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 (Chapter 5)

Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 5: the Jubilee.—1865.

Edit - See edit to post # 11.

hoosier

 

[hoosier]

"Roll, Jordan, Roll" and "John Brown's Body"

 

[luinrina]

Google is strange: After many unsuccessful combinations of search words, I had to leave out what I consider a key word to find the solution. Does anyone else find that weird?

Anyway, the songs William Lloyd Garrison led the crowd in singing were "Roll, Jordon, Roll" and "John Brown's Body".
Source: The Seven-Day Scholar: The Civil War: Exploring History One Week at a Time

But interesting question. I had no idea that there was a ceremony on April 14, 1865 at Fort Sumter with General Anderson raising the very same flag he had saluted and furled four years earlier when he evacuated the fort. Lincoln's assassination that evening truly overshadow these festivities.

 

[sarladaise]

"Roll, Jordan, Roll"
"John Brown's Body"

 

[Stony]

"John Brown's Body" and "Roll Jordan Roll"
source-
Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War. Page 317.
By David Detzer

 

[Soldier Boy]

1) "Roll, Jordan, Roll"
2) "John Brown's Body"

Source: https://www.google.com/books/editio...eston+april+1865&pg=PT369&printsec=frontcover Day 5

 

[hughes]

CORRECTION: The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Edit - Revised in next post.

hoosier