1. Slavery and Africian Culture
Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? In 1562 John Hawkins, the first English slave-trader arrived in Africa with a fleet of three ships. Into these ships he put the three hundred black Africans he had abducted from Sierra Leone. ... African "promiscuity" was seen as proof that family life did not exist in Africa as Europeans knew it. ... From the early days of slavery in the Americas slaves used wood, string, bones, skin, sticks, gourds, pans and horns to create music. ...
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