"Swing low, Sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home."
My first impression was that this was going to be
about dead as a representation of freedom, but I was wrong this talks about
freedom but not dead. It makes allusion to another passage in the Bible when
the Jewish wanted to be free form the Egyptians. And again this was something
that Negro slaves used to sing.
"I looked over Jordan
and what did I see
Coming for to carry me home
A band of Angels coming after me
Coming for to carry me home."
When it says “I looked over Jordan” it doesn’t mean
that Jordan is a person, but it is talking about the Jordan river. Also when it
says “a band of angels coming after me” I thought of dead once more. But what
they are trying to say is that the people that will help them to be free are
already coming to help them.
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