negro-methodist

Updated: April 30, 2025

This hut is now crammed with men, singing at the top of their voices, in one of their quaint, monotonous, endless, negro-Methodist chants, with obscure syllables recurring constantly, and slight variations interwoven, all accompanied with a regular drumming of the feet and clapping of the hands, like castanets.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment