... religions, held different values, and allocated different responsibilities among the sexes. Therefore, the women in these cultures had their gender constructed differently, yet in each it was the woman who played the domestic role. The creation stories in each of these societies reflect how little or much women were valued. In most of the Native American ... and a daughter. The daughter became the mother of the great nations of the Iroquois (Kerber and De Hart 30). So even though the Native women performed similar tasks to those of European and African women, they were highly valued and h...

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... slave labor, they would be, on the most part, resentful and angry. Various forms of expression, clandestine yet lucent, developed out of these feelings. One such form was music. Native African music consisted mainly of wind and string melodies punctuated by hand clapping, xylophones, and drum beats. Along those lines, an early type of slave music was the spiritual, which ... , and the ideas of good and evil. They also practiced "ancestor worship", believing that dead family members could influence aspects of their lives. A main difference between African and Christian religions, however,...

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