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PREMIERE

AFRICA'S GIFT--The Black Sacred Music of the Black Church, Africa's musical gift to America and America's only original contribution to the world of music, is highlighted in "Thank God!", an Afro-American Docu-Opera. During slavery, music was the link to Africa's oral tradition.

CRY FOR FREEDOM--Neither the brutality of slavery nor an oppressive form of Christianity could prevent the the Africans from singing the Lord's song in a strange land. "Thank God!", tells the riveting saga of the Africans' coming to America and how their survival was rooted in Black Sacred Music. 

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[[caption - NAT TURNER CAPTURED--The most successful and brutal slave rebellion of the antebellum South was led by the famous preacher Nat Turner in South Hampton, Virginia in 1831. As part of its Black History Month Docu-Opera, "Thank God!", TONY BROWN'S JOURNAL brings to life one of the South's most feared figures, Nat Turner. 

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