Storytelling, music, and dance have all played a central role in African culture, because they help preserve history and religious and social customs. ... Through the telling of stories, folklore and fiction these slaves illustrated for other slaves an array of experiences including, pre-slavery Africa, the "middle passage" (period of time that the slaves traveled in horrible conditions in a ship to get to the new world), the underground railroad/runaway experience, working on the plantations, the hope of being freed and vindicated, and general daily hardships. ... Owens remarks, "The slave&...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate