Oh Freedom!: About the Song - Ballad of America
https://balladofamerica.org/oh-freedomSong History. The spiritual "Oh Freedom!" probably came into being soon after the end of slavery. Like many African American spirituals, the song has more than one meaning.Not only does it refer to freedom in the world to come after death, as many slave spirituals do, but it celebrates their new freedom in the here and now. In the 1950s and 1960s, the song was commonly sung as …