1. Slavery and Africian Culture
Allowed by their owners to bring up their children and organize their domestic lives, they carried out their chores, cooking, making clothes, and their leisure activities all within distance of their masters house enabled the slave community to flourish. ... LEISURE (MUSIC AND DANCE) "Slaves often sang when at work in the fields or factory, measuring out via songs the pattern of work, the rhythm of labour; a refrain and choral response which provided the discipline for labouring routines (Walvin 2001;p139)". ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate