This cultural vitality also spread into and incorporated European cultural developments. ... Africa's population consisted of civilized, organized, technologically advanced people,2 long before the arrival of the European enslavers, who tried to suggest they were backward people. ... After embarking the ships and the journey to the West Indies commenced, many families were separated; split between husband and wife, mother and children. ... It was incorporated into work on the plantations, periods of festivity and lamentation and so had a continuity that evolved from slavery into freedom a...

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