It became a strange world for many of them, but the Europeans as the inferior race took control and developed change throughout the Atlantic World. Race became a mixture, and European religion was spreading all across the Americas and Africa (Benjamin, Hall, & Rutherford, 2001). Much of the Atlantic World would eventually change to fit European societies, which were different and in some cases similar between groups. Women in many cases had similar roles within these interactions, as well as men. Additionally, colonial America spread throughout Atlantic World and in time converted many of these indigenous groups and slaves.
In Salem, Massachusetts strange laws were made when thehunting of ³witches´ began. They believed moles were signs of witches¶ mark and those whowere thought to be a witch was hung and killed. Thus, the Salem witchcraft trials and the Stonorebellion both politically and socially reflected tensions in colonial society.Socially, the class divisions played a huge role in the tensions in colonial society. Slaveswere being treated as property and not as living things and these African Americans did not likeit. So In South Carolina, a group of slaves (about 20) gathered by the Stono River and revolted.These slaves raided firearms shop and killed 20 whites colonists while marching south towardsSt.
It has now spread through other Caribbean islands, cities in the United States, along with other parts of the world. Followers of the Rastafarian movement are known as Rastafarians. Most recognized by Marcus Garvey, a religious prophet. In the 1930's Jamaicans continued to struggle with post slavery discrimination. At the time of the Rastafarian Movement, Jamaicans began to create their own dialect in attempts to protest the imposed English language.
The European slave trade that began in the 1500s was larger. Also, the enslaved Africans were treated far more harshly. In the Americas, when the natives began dying from disease, the Europeans brought in Africans, for three reasons. Africans had resistance to European diseases, so they would not get sick and die. Also, many Africans knew about farming so they would be accustomed to the work involved.
Africa experienced growth and change in their political organization and the rise and fall of kingdoms and states Before the syncretic cults, Africa's old traditions and beliefs surrounded deities, idols, and multiple gods. These god symbolized the world around them. Then, when Christianity and Islam came over to Sub-Saharan Africa, there was intermixing with the traditions and foreign religions. Christianity became popular with
Those rituals were completely different from the ones of Christian slaveholders, like shamanism and other tribal cults. Soon, both African cults and Christianity were mixed together giving rise to new cults, like voodoo for example. By the eighteenth century, slaves were being forced to convert to the slaveholder’s religion, which caused the loss of many tribal practices in the African-American slave community. In 1807, the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves forbid the importation of slaves from African countries. The slaveholding system had become self-sufficient and this dictated the end of many tribal practices among black slaves.
Being the “melting pot” country, led to many immigrants coming from many different countries, and they bring the sounds with them. During the early stages of America, many immigrants come from Europe and Africa. In the beginning the term “Root music” was used to describe music made by white of European ancestry music, often in the south. As the century progressed, the definition of folk music expanded to include the song styles - particularly the blues - of Southern blacks as well. In general, folk music was viewed as a window into the cultural life of these groups.
My first example on how deleting our humane feelings caused harm is Document 7 by James Ramsay called, “Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies”. The article speaks about the punishments done to slaves for misbehaving in their eyes and committing mistakes. The white men would beat them with sticks, breaking their bones, chain around their necks, etc. All this was done to cause fear within them. All these people thought since Africans are slaves, it’s okay to treat them as beasts.
*The Ordeal of the Slave* -A state of perpetual terror: 1) first caught from her/ his tribe by the Europeans or another tribe. 2) All rounded up and put on the ships. 3) Having to survive on a ship. 4) Got to the destination with low attitude. -Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina toon on two forms primarily: !
(McKay, Chap 21, pg 570) In order to get a good perspective on what being a slave was like, we will look into a narrative written by Olaudah Equiano. Equiano was a native of Iboland who was captured at the age of eleven. He describes how some villagers would wait until the adults would go out in the plantations to work to abduct their younger children. Once Equiano was sold to the Europeans he says that they were treated horribly beaten and cramped on a very small boat. The reason that the slaves were treated badly could have been due to the fact that the Europeans had to pay a high price for them or just due to a lack of space.