Answer to last Christmas Carol...
The Christmas carol written on Christmas Eve of 1818 in the Austrian Alps when the church pipe organ was broken was...
'Silent Night'
Today's History of Christmas Carols...
To black slaves in the United States, the birth of a Savior who would set all men free was a miracle worth singing about. And there was no better place from which to communicate such a marvelous thing than a mountain.
Today's carol is an authentic spiritual that probably dates from the early 1800's and was first popularized by the Fisk University 'Jubilee Singers.' Appropriately enough, Fisk University was a college founded in Nashville, Tennessee to educate freed slaves.
Name this popular Christmas Carol...
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