will always be particularly remembered for the cruelty it exhibited. Up until 1865 slaves were imported in shiploads and treated as if they were merely cattle. On the farms slaves were given no mercy and had to work long‚ arduous days for nothing. Additionally they were often subject to cruel overseers who would beat and whip them on a regular basis. As brutal and destructive as the institution of slavery was‚ slaves were not defenseless victims. Through their families‚ and religion‚ as well as more
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Slaves never gave up their hope for freedom or their will to resist total white control over them. They succeeded in creating a semi-independent culture centered on the family and church‚ which enabled them to survive the experience of bondage without abandoning their self-esteem and to pass on to other generations values that conflicted with those of their masters. Slave culture drew on the heritage of Africa. African influence appeared in dance and music‚ forms of religious worship‚ and slave medicine
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Which Aspects of Slave Culture has the Greatest Impact on Western Culture? The slave culture has gradually influenced the Western culture in many different aspects of life such as music‚ art‚ food‚ language…etc. However‚ in my opinion‚ the western music has been affected the most by the slave culture because most music in western countries have been developed from slavery whereas our language has been affected the least because the slave culture has hardly affected or changed English in any way
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The Influence of Black Slave Culture on Early America The Black slaves of colonial America brought their own culture from Africa to the new land. Despite their persecution‚ the "slave culture" has contributed greatly to the development of America’s own music‚ dance‚ art‚ and clothing. Music It is understandable that when Africans were torn from their homes and families‚ lashed into submission ‚ and forced into lifelong slave labor‚ they would be‚ on the most part‚ resentful and angry. Various
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John. W. Blessingame‚ The Slave Community: The Plantation Life in The Antebellum South (Oxford University Press‚ Inc: 1972‚ 1979). John Wesley Blassingame was a scholar‚ historian‚ educator‚ writer‚ and leading pioneer in the study of American slavery. He received a bachelor’s degree at Fort Balley State College in 1969‚ a master’s degree at Howard University in 1961‚ and a doctorate at Yale University in 1971. He then became a history professor at his alma mater in 1974 at Yale University.
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positives as a means to cope. African-American slaves used several aspects of their native African culture to cope‚ two primary components being music and religion. Slaves worked under constant watch by their owners‚ constantly fearing punishment for a slip-up. Enslaved African-Americans obviously resented the way they were being treated‚ and devised ways to rebel against their owners right under their noses. Reaching back to their African roots‚ Slaves sang seemingly harmless songs to one another
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Slave Culture and the Harlem Renaissance: Finding a Home in Modernism For years scholars have noted the importance in history of the African- Americans from the time of the Atlantic slave trade‚ even up to current culture and entertainment. As prominent as the slave trade is taught within the schools and the education systems‚ there has been little noted in the history classes about the art and literature of that time period for African-Americans. However‚ in spite of the little we know of the
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imperialism and colonialism in new ways. The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent‚ sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to North and South America. The numbers were so great that Africans who came by way of the slave trade became the most numerous Old-World immigrants
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The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker is a great fiction novel that describes the horrifying experiences of Africans‚ seamen‚ and captains on their journey through the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage marked the water way in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Americas. The use of slaves provided a great economy for the European countries due to the fact that these African slaves provided free labor while cultivating sugar cane in the Caribbean and America. Rediker describes the slave migration
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Slave Acculturation The seasoning process‚ as applied to the treatment of plantation slaves‚ was designed to ensure not only that the slaves would become totally dependent upon the dictates of their owners but also to destroy the cultural links which the slaves had with their former homelands. In the West African kingdoms which provided one of the major source of slaves at the height of the triangle trade‚ slavery was part of the indigenous culture; however‚ the motivation
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