SongEra: Jim CrowEra: Slavery

I'm Gonna Sail Like a Ship on the Ocean

Name: I'm Gonna Sail Like a Ship on the Ocean
Description: Traditional Georgia Sea Island / Gullah shout-spiritual, documented in a 1959 Alan Lomax field recording of the Georgia Sea Island Singers on St. Simons…

c. 1959(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: spiritual

Traditional Georgia Sea Island / Gullah shout-spiritual, documented in a 1959 Alan Lomax field recording of the Georgia Sea Island Singers on St. Simons Island.

Sources & citations

1.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
2.georgiaencyclopedia.orgwebsite