...the white quarters from their quarters. Then they would begin the "grand march round de campment," accompanied with leaping, shuffling, and dancing,...accompanied by a song appropriate to the exciting occasion. . . . The sound of the hammer aforesaid became the signal for a general arising all around the camp;...

...camp living quarters from those of the whites and then would have a "grand march round de campment ... accompanied with leaping, shuffling, and dancing,...before the ark when his wife thought he was crazy."" This tradition was called singing and praying bands in the Methodist Church and, as with the ring shout...

...a free exchange of Christian music in a final march round the camp, as an onlooker observed: . . . accompanied with leaping, shuffling and dancing, after...accompanied by a song appropriate to the exciting occasion. . .* A 'Shout' Although many black Christians acknowledged secular social dancing to be sinful, they...

...colored precincts; and in a few moments, the grand "march 'round de 'campment" was inaugurated, and accompanied with leaping, shuffling, and dancing,...Cana-ann's land; I hears de music ob de angel band. Chorus — "O come an' jine de army; An' we'll keep de ark a movin'; As we goes shoutin' home! "Come, childering,...