Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Michael, Row the Boat Ashore\" (or \"Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore\" or \"Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore\" or \"Michael Row That Gospel Boat\") is a negro spiritual. It was first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. It is cataloged as Roud Folk Song Index No. 11975.It was sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned the island before the Union navy arrived to enforce a blockade. Charles Pickard Ware, an abolitionist and Harvard graduate who had come to supervise the plantations on St. Helena Island from 1862 to 1865, wrote the song down in music notation as he heard the freedmen sing it. Ware's cousin, William Francis Allen, reported in 1863 that while he rode in a boat across Station Creek, the former slaves sang the song as they rowed.The song was first published in Slave Songs of the United States, by Allen, Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, in 1867."@en }
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- Michael_Row_the_Boat_Ashore abstract "\"Michael, Row the Boat Ashore\" (or \"Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore\" or \"Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore\" or \"Michael Row That Gospel Boat\") is a negro spiritual. It was first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. It is cataloged as Roud Folk Song Index No. 11975.It was sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned the island before the Union navy arrived to enforce a blockade. Charles Pickard Ware, an abolitionist and Harvard graduate who had come to supervise the plantations on St. Helena Island from 1862 to 1865, wrote the song down in music notation as he heard the freedmen sing it. Ware's cousin, William Francis Allen, reported in 1863 that while he rode in a boat across Station Creek, the former slaves sang the song as they rowed.The song was first published in Slave Songs of the United States, by Allen, Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, in 1867.".