City Called Heaven

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On the contrary these songs has some differences as well. In the spiritual song “ City called Heaven” the time when it was written, was at the beginning of slavery. Christianity in those years were crucial to people, they were strongly believers of God and life after dead “I’ve heard of a city called heaven” in Christian religious “heaven” is described as this wonderful place where people whom were good people in life, go after they die, like some type of paradise after life. For them God was their “Salvation” Next all African American slaves were uneducated, many of them did not know how to write or read. Africans were taken and exported by ships, for long periods of time. They did not had right to talk with their “owners”, nor had rights

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