... 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 ... inseparable. Moreover, the slave was afforded few opportunities to carve on his own or his master's time." This repression of the slave's creativity doubtlessly impeded the development of an African-American art...

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