African American Roots

Question 1

slave trade

Answer 1

west Africa to new world; culture and families destroyed, but not ideas

Question 2

African musical traits; percussion, call and response, vocal style, dance, sung when?

Answer 2

drums played polyrhythms, someone played, others responded, nasal voice, danced when singing, sung when working, eating, etc.

Question 3

regional diff in slavery

Answer 3

North: less slaves, more assimilation
South: more slaves, isolated, stronger Afircan culture
Both: instruments banned, but allowed sometimes

Question 4

attitudes toward evangelism?

Answer 4

slaves need saving; but baptizing makes them human right?(passed a law to stop this)

Question 5

Great Awakening; spiritiuals

Answer 5

NAtionwide outdoor religious revival (1000s of people); led to black spirituals (took eu hymms and ran them through African filter)

Question 6

Richard allen

Answer 6

black minister; made African Methodist Church (oldest wholly black owned org), and wandering refrains (2 or 3 line refrains, used w/ call and response)

Question 7

ring shout

Answer 7

shuffling dance, don’t take feet off the ground

Question 8

Georgia sea islands

Answer 8

most isolated black slaves; kept lot of culture; whites only came several times a year

Question 9

cloaked meaning in spiritiaul texts

Answer 9

signaled the underground railroad, and the North