CRB 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Middle Passage, Coromantee, Apsis
26 Jul 2018
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Maintaining ancestral connections or developing unique cultural characteristics historically used by oppressed to resist cultural domination. Drums used by africans to communicate and linked to revolts during enslavement. Cultural creolication/hybridity between african peoples: akan, ashanti, mandingo, yoruba, congo, ibo, coromantee, etc. Forced interacting; trauma of middle passage and slavery brought about necessity of developing common language, intermarriage, spirituality, cooking. The caribbean can be defined as plantation america in so far as it derives from a past branded by the apogee and the decadence of the plantation.
