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O Southland!

by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

In celebration of Juneteenth, LibriVox volunteers bring you five different versions of O Southland!, by James Weldon Johnson. This was the weekly poetry project for 18 June 2006.
(Summary by Annie Coleman)

• Bartleby e-text
• Wikipedia - James Weldon Johnson
• Wikipedia - Juneteenth
• LibriVox’s O Southland! Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire project (4.4 MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 - 00:01:51
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 - 00:01:59
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: JemmaBlythe
• Version 3 - 00:01:50
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Laura Fox
• Version 4 - 00:01:45
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Mark F. Smith
• Version 5 - 00:01:38
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.8MB]
  Read by: Tyler