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THE STORY OF THE JUBILEE SINGERS.
CHAPTER I.
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE.
The story of the Jubilee Singers seems almost as
little like a chapter from real life as the legend of
the daring Argonauts who sailed with Jason on that
famous voyage after the Golden Fleece. It is the
story of a little company of emancipated slaves who
set out to secure, by their singing, the fabulous sum
of $20,000 for the impoverished school in which they
were students. The world was as unknown to these
untravelled freed people as were the countries through
which the Argonauts had to pass; the social prejudices
that confronted them were as terrible to meet
as fire-breathing bulls or the warriors that sprang
from the land sown with dragons' teeth; and no seas
