Harriet Jacobs School, Virginia 1864
the story
IN SONG AND SPIRIT is a musical documentary that weaves together excerpts from Harriet Jacobs's memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl with stories of my own family history and performances of African American spirituals. The film explores themes of migration, black womanhood, and the empowering role of collective memory in the preservation of African American culture.
the creatives
Malik Isasis, director and filmmaker
Freddie June, vocalist
Watch In Song and Spirit
the music
Deep River, arr. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
I’m Troubled in Mind, arr. Coleridge-Taylor
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, arr. Harry Burleigh
This Little Light of Mine, traditional
the presenters
Harlem Chamber Players
Lincoln Center
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
WQXR