History of African American Slavery by Madison Holness

FREEDOM

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founded in 1776 until 1865

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The first Africans forced to work in the New World left from Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century

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Gospel music

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Slavery was predominantly in the South of America

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The number of people carried off from Africa reached 30,000 per year in the 1690s and 85,000 per year a century later.

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More than eight out of ten Africans forced into the slave trade crossed the Atlantic between 1700 and 1850.

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Began sometime around 1619 when a Portuguese slave ship carried human cargo of African people to England.

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Life on the fields, working from sunup to sundown six days a week and having food not suitable for an animal to eat.

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In the 15th Century, the Roman Catholic Church granted Portugal rights to trade in West Africa, and enslave those who lived there.

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Work songs helped to pass down information about the lived experience of enslaved people to their communities and families.

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Music was a way for the slaves to express there feelings whether that was sorrow, joy, inspiration or hope

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A common feature of African-American songs was the call-and-response format

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Since the earliest days of slavery, singing has accompanied all kinds of group and individual work activities of African Americans. These improvised songs, known as work songs, field calls (also field hollers) and street calls (also street cries) served many functions.

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The blues is a form of music that started in the United States during the start of the 20th century.

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Work songs were generally encouraged by the slave owners, who saw them as means of increasing the slaves' work output and maintaining their morale.

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blues music was started by former African slaves from spirituals, praise songs, and chants. The first blues songs were called Delta blues. These songs came from the area near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

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Music was one of the only things that slaves had and it was passed orally through generations.

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The punishments could include whippings, torture, imprisonment, and some slaves were even sometimes murdered.

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slave songs not only laid the musical foundations for the most popular forms of music in later American history—including the blues, jazz

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they mainly used cheap or no instruments, such as the banjo and steel string guitar and glass slides

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OH YESSS I KNOW!!!🗣️🗣️

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Scott Joplin was partially responsible for popularising a new era of music. His compositions would later spark the beginning of swing music, which would later evolve into jazz.

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It was illegal to teach slaves to read or write so songs were used as another way to communicate and share stories

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The blues genre was well represented by influential female artists such as Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who challenged gender norms within music at large during their time

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helped to shape the development of blues and jazz, which later influenced the development of rock and roll.

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POV: Kyote doing his music work

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Many blues songs contain the metaphorical image of a train, symbolizing freedom, longing, and escape.

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helped to shape the development of blues and jazz, which later influenced the development of rock and roll.

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In early slavery drums were used to provide rhythm, but they were banned in later years because of the fear that black slaves would use them to cusing other instruments or their own bodies.ommunicate in a rebellion, nevertheless slaves managed to generate percussion and percussive sounds,

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rhythm, but they were banned in later years because of the fear that black slaves would use them to

communicate in a rebellion, nevertheless slaves managed to generate percussion and percussive sounds,

using other instruments or their own bodies.

During the period of African American slavery, working songs were often sung in the fields, sometimes satirical. They were also used to pass down stories from older generations. Work songs were often sung in a call and response structure, in which the leading singer would sing verses while the background singers sang chorus lines.

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The civil rights movement (1964-68) was basically an umbrella term for all the activism that aimed for full political, social, and economic rights for African Americans. During this movement, they sang African American spiritual, gospel, and folk songs to motivate them through long marches and for mental strength against harassment. "We Shall Overcome" is a gospel song that is considered the anthem of the movement.

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