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The year of jubilee. Our Argonauts ; The real significance of the war ; The "contrabands" and the boys in blue ; Hunger for the spelling book ; The heroines of the freedmen's schools ; Missionary work -- The forlorn hope. The founding and the founders of Fisk University ; Buying a site on the sly ; Hospital barracks turned into school rooms ; Handcuffs sold to buy testaments ; A full and busy hive ; A troublesome problem ; The man who undertakes to work it out ; Experiments with the student choir ; The forlorn hope starts -- Adrift on stormy seas. The captain and his company ; The beginning at Cincinnati ; Enthusiastic audiences, but light receipts ; Insults at hotels ; Ups and downs, especially "downs" ; Uncouth outfits ; Doubting friends who sit near the door ; The man-of-all-work ; He has good grip -- Light in the East. Before the council at Oberlin ; Seed sown in good ground ; The concerts at Cleveland and Columbus ; A friend in need ; The company christened; a good night's work ; Free concerts, and, as usual, small collections ; A glimmer of light ; Among friends at New York ; "Beecher's negro minstrels" ; Sunrise in the city of churches -- Success at last. Triumph after triumph ; A furore for making presents ; A distinguished lecturer loses his audience, and follows them to hear the singers ; Guests of a Governor one day, and turned out of a hotel the next ; Singing for President Grant and Parson Barlow ; Floating on a high tide ; The Jubilee songs whistled and sung everywhere ; Twenty thousand dollars for the three months' work -- The second campaign. At the Boston Peace Jubilee ; Hisses drowned in applause ; How an insult was answered ; Friends in high places at Philadelphia ; A dining-room concert; reserved seats for the waiters ; Caste indignities at Baltimore and Princeton ; Servants who could not wait on "nagurs;" Christian people who could not say "have mercy on us sinners" in the same pew with them ; Fort Gillem makes way for Jubilee hall ; Another twenty thousand dollars secured ; Preparations for going abroad -- The first visit to London. A helping hand from the Earl of Shaftesbury ; The preparations for the first concert ; Its complete success ; Guests of the Duke of Argyll ; Singing for the Queen ; Memorable hospitalities ; Entertained by Dean Stanley and George MacDonald ; Mr. Gladstone introduces the singers to a distinguished company ; And excuses himself from the Lord Mayor's banquet to receive them as his guests ; Good words from Dr. Moffat, and kindly favors from Dr. Allon and Newman Hall ; In Mr. Spurgeon's tabernacle; a song suggests a sermon -- A busy winter in Great Britain. On the way to Scotland ; Crowded concerts at Hull, Newcastle and Sunderland ; Hospitalities at Castle Wemyss ; Lord Shaftesbury again renders valuable service ; A jaunt into Ireland ; Concerts at Belfast and 'Derry ; Distinguished attentions at Glasgow and Edinburgh ; Singing in Mr. Moody's meetings ; The harvest in the midland counties ; An avalanche of invitations to give concerts ; The burden breaks down the working force ; The death of Mrs. White ; Closing concerts ; Nearly $50,000 carried home -- Over the ocean again. Results of the first decade of work at Fisk ; Jubilee Hall completed ; Success increases the needs ; The singers take the field again ; Farewell tour in the states, and departure for England ; An enthusiastic welcome in London ; Singing in the Moody meetings; a month of revival work ; An autumn in Scotland ; The old enthusiasm of old friends, and the equal heartiness of new ones ; Overflowing audiences at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Inverness ; The Jubilee Sunday-school mass meetings ; First visit to Dublin; which gives a genuine Irish welcome ; An afternoon at Hawarden castle ; Subscriptions for Livingstone missionary hall ; A scouting excursion on the continent ; Two months in Holland ; The story and the songs translated into Dutch ; Distinguished attentions -- Eight months in Germany. Preparations for work at Berlin ; Dinner parties and receptions ; An eventful afternoon; audience with the emperor ; The Domkirche and sing-akademie opened for the singers ; The verdict of the German critics ; The welcome from the religious public ; A visit with Professor Christlieb at Bonn ; Attentions from the Princess Alice; another meeting with the Prince of Wales ; The King and Queen of Saxony at the Jubilee concerts ; The good results of the trip through Germany ; Homeward bound -- Personal histories of the singers. The children whom the proclamation of emancipation set free ; The new life which the singers entered ; Ella Sheppard ; Maggie L. Porter ; Jennie Jackson ; Georgia Gordon ; Thomas Rutling ; Frederick J. Loudin ; Mabel Lewis ; Minnie Tate ; Benjamin M. Holmes ; Isaac P. Dicerson -- The jubilee songs. |
