The Influence of Black Slave Culture on Early America

Title: The Influence of Black Slave Culture on Early America
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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 forms of expression, clandestine yet …showed first 75 words of 1120 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1120 total…of Black Americans are astounding. Their advancements in music, art, religion, language, and science have helped shape American culture as a whole. Bibliography Angel, Stephen W. The African-American Almanac, v.4. Harper Publishing, San Francisco, 1984. Internet: http://genesis.acu.edu Internet: http://users.iol.it Internet: The Black Experience @gopher://wiretap.spies.com Microsoft Bookshelf Encyclopedia. Columbia University Press, Chicago, 1995. Rampling, Anne. Exit To Eden. Dell Publishing, New York, 1989 World Book Encyclopedia. World Book Inc., Chicago, 1992

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