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ELEMENTS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY PAGE 2 After Columbus’ discovery of the New Land of the Americas in 1492, flocks of Europeans started to sail and to land on the American soil. Their goals were to collect goal and to get wealthy after taking over the lands from the native Indians. Unfortunately, the European settlers faced stiff resistance from the indigenous people of the land. In the process they killed thousands of Native Indians. The European settlers began building their settlements over the Indians’ territories and began to establish their own codes of law to govern
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The Pre-Slavery Era – Elements of African American Identity https://elementsofafricanamericanidentity.word Slave culture in North America was largely a combination of tribal African culture, Christian worship and resistance. American slave culture was based on defiance and survival against the American slave system. American slaves practiced other forms of resistance like running away, suicide, slow paces of work, deliberate sabotage of the plantation equipment or crops, and poisoning of their slave masters. In all of these instances, slave culture enabled a ELEMENTS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY PAGE 3 significant amount of resistance to the plantation economy and created a relatively cohesive slave identity that shaped the southern life and relationships between slaves and whites in the colonial era. Although the treatment of slaves varied depending on the plantation more often than not it was characterized by brutality. Whippings, executions, beatings and rapes were commonly suffered by slaves. Some slaves were treated differently according to their value or their …show more content…
Some states denied slaves the right to carry firearms, drink liquor, or leave the plantation without a written consent from the owner. The slaves strove to adapt to their new lives by forming new communities among themselves; the development of the families and the communities formed the most important response to the trauma of being enslaved. Oral tradition was a strong feature in the African ELEMENTS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY PAGE 4 customs and allowed many African American slaves to feel a sense of cultural connection with the continent of their origin. It became the primary means of preserving slave history and cultural information. Music, folktales and storytelling provided an opportunity for the enslaved to educate each other. Songs and enthusiastic public worship were often used as a way of channeling and coping with hardships and voicing their grievances to others in the slave community. Slave Culture and Rebellion https://courseslumenlearning.com Although abolition gained momentum in the 1850s, the problem of the expansion of slavery lay at the heart of the turmoil that ultimately led to the Civil War. The decade opened with a controversy over slavery in the newly acquired territory in the South West. The