Daily News | Burlington Friends Quaker Meeting House presents Deep River, a concert of Negro Spirituals
Delores “Dee” Corbett, grew up attending Pentecostal churches in Texas, and later in California, until marriage brought her to New Jersey roughly 25 years ago.
A human resources consultant and owner of an insurance brokerage firm, Dee Corbett began working as director of the Burlington Quaker Meeting House and Center for Conference last April. “The more I studied these spirituals and the meaning behind them, I began thinking about what our ancestors had to go through during this time of enslavement and how these songs carried them through,” she said. “It’s amazing to me and it honors them and it ultimately honors myself to sing these songs.”
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