Cone, James, "The Black Church and Black Power," in The Black Church in America, edited by Hart M. Nelsen, Raytha L. Yokley and Anne K. Nelsen, New York: Basic Books, 1971, pp. 335-55.
Cone makes the case that what appeared to be longing for the afterlife in spirituals was actually a covert way talking about freedom in this life.
Harper's Bible Dictionary, edited by Paul G. Achtemeier, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985, pp. 604-5.
This source gives the historical and biblical significance of the River Jordan.
Meier, August, and Elliott Rudwick, From Plantation to.....
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