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African American Contributions To The New World

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Most African Americans are the descendants of confined Africans. Africans arrived in the New World and used their knowledge of the old world to create new world inventions. African Americans lost their African heritage once they arrived into America. during slavery; Their contributions in early America weren 't really acknowledged. If they did receive credit it was little to none. African Americans contributed to the new world in areas such as clothing,music, and food. People believed that Europeans brought rice to west Africa, when in fact, African Americans were the ones to bring rice cultivation to the new world. Also African Americans sung negro spirituals; they were christian religious themed songs. Those spiritual represented the
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