Roll, Jordan, Roll

I'm not sure what clips or audio recordings Bryce found for our presentation, but I found clips of Follow the Drinking Gourd and Roll, Jordan, Roll. I wanna talk about the latter. Roll, Jordan, Roll was a spiritual written in the 18th century by Charles Wesley (English leader of the Methodist movement who wrote 6,000 hymns - okay buddy we see you). Roll, Jordan, Roll was one of the spirituals that were appropriated as coded messages for escape. The spiritual was featured in the film 12 Years A Slave. Below you'll find a link to a clip of the movie. In the clip, the character Solomon Northup (who wrote the title memoir that the movie is based off of) is seen as accepting the hopelessness of his situation and singing to the heavens, singing to God, with the rest of the choir. The actor, Chiwetel Ejifor, conveys so many emotions on his face in this moment, it's truly amazing. This scene always makes me cry (if you guys haven't seen 12 Years A Slave, freaking watch it).
https://youtu.be/mAZhQQN758g