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GOSPEL SONGS AND SPIRITUALS - 43 GREAT GOSPEL TRACKS READERS DIGEST ON 3CD ALBUM\n\nRARE/NOW DELETED CD ALBUM\n\nReview\n\nThe 'Queen of Gospel', Mahalia Jackson, leads a host of soul-stirring artists in this exclusive collection that brngs together more than 50 of the all-time favourite gospel songs and spirituals.\n\nBy the middle of of the 19th century more than two million black people - most from West Africa had been sold by rival tribal chiefs to North Americans as slaves. A majority of them were taken to work on the endless cotton plantations in the South. The slaves' evangelisation, often intended to make them accept their fate as God's will, had an unexepected effect. They were enlightened as to the true meaning of the gospel as a message of liberation. They identified with the Hebrew people walking to the Promised Land and longed for the day When The Saints Go Marchin' In.\n\nSung and played by these African-Americans with their unequalled sense of rhythm, this message of f;