Various – Passion of Octavius Catto

In a deeply impressive and magnificent synthesis of gospel, jazz and contemporary music, Uri Caine tells the moving story of Octavius Catto, born in 1839 in South Carolina to free African-American parents. Catto's family moved to Philadelphia in 1844, where he studied, became an educator, humanities scholar, top cricket and baseball player, and civil rights activist. Together with his fellow campaigners, he achieved the abolition of slavery and discrimination in elections based on race, color, or former serfdom, as well as the creation of educational institutions for African-Americans. Catto was murdered by Frank Kelly during riots on election day in 1871. Octavius Catto: We shall never rest at ease, but will agitate and work, by our means and by our influence, in court and out of court, asking aid of the press, calling upon Christians to vindicate their Christianity, and the members of the law to assert the principles of the profession by granting us justice and right, until these invidious and unjust usages shall have ceased.""

1. Prologue
2. The Mob Burns Down Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia (May 17, 1838)
3. No East No West
4. The Philadelphia Streetcar Protests (March 1867)
5. Baseball Star Of 1867
6. Change
7. The Amendments
8. Murder (October 10, 1871)
9. The Lament Of Caroline Le Count
10. The Martyr Rests (October 16, 1871)

Label: Winter & Winter

Catalog: 910269

Genre: Classical Artists