Blassingame The Slave Community Summary

Once the African landed in the Americas and endured the humiliation of being sold like livestock the African now had the challenge of acculturation. Africans enslaved in the Americas had to make adjustments, learning their captors' language, adopting much of their culture, and accepting their religious beliefs. The acculturation period of the African varied with time, place and numerous other factors (Blassingame, 1979) But even with the challenge of acculturation Africans living on the plantation found creative ways to resist and in doing so began to subtly Africanize the South.

According to Blassingame in his book The Slave Community over time slaves began to influence their master's way of living. Some examples of this were during the colonial