Spiritual (music)
Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are religious (generally Christian) songs that were created by enslaved African people in the United States.
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“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience the most painful tragedies by far: but for just this reason they honor life, because it pits its greatest opposition against them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)