I don't know....In their hearts? Keeping them going?
Im pretty they sang the song "swing low sweet chariot"
they were sang by slaves. they sang about love or life troubles
fashion i sang it my bobies sang it
slaves sang during there work to send other slaves messages, it was like a code that only they knew
Heaven Seventeen
who is the female singing in this must be heaven by bloodstone
they sang while they worked in the plantations
warrant
it cheered them up
slaves
tom paxton
dolly parton did a bluegrss version.