... are captured in the relationship between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the stories the slaves tell" (Botkin, xii). Montgomery 3 Music The prevalence of music in slave life is illustrated in that "songs accompanied bondsmen at worship, work, and play tapping all their moods" (Owens, 171). For entertainment slaves made musical instruments with carved motifs that resembled African stringed instruments. Their drumming and dancing clearly followed ... African patterns; whites marveled at them. In one dance a spectator noted that, slaves would gather, and form a ring of singers, t...

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