To black slaves in the United States, the birth of the Savior who would set all men free was a miracle to be sung about. And when there was something so notable to tell, what better place to tell it from than a mountain, just as Jesus had chosen for His Sermon on the Mount. “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” an authentic spiritual that dates probably back to the early 1800s, was first popularized in 1879 by the Fisk University Jubilee Singers. This chorus traveled throughout the United States and Europe at the end of the l9th century, earning scholarship-fund money for Fisk, a school founded to educate freed slaves.
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