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(AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski ... enslaved singers were part of white-run Sacred Harp events; post-Reconstruction, Black singers founded their own conventions, he said. “The Sacred Harp ...

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at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church on Saturday ... singers were part of white-run Sacred Harp events; post-Reconstruction, Black singers founded their own conventions, he said.