1. The Influence of Slave Culture on Early America
The Black slaves of colonial America brought their own culture from Africa to the new land. ... These songs originated in plantation fields as work songs, and were later sung in churches of Black congregations. ... Incidentally, there was an outpouring of African-American art after emancipation. ... Science America's earliest African-American scientists and inventors are largely unknown -- their contributions to America buried in anonymity...While historians increasingly recognize that blacks had a significant impact on the design and construction of plantations and public bu...
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