African culture in the Americas
Reading: Excerpts from “Chapter 4: African Culture in the Americas,” in Krauthammer, Barbara and Williams, Chad. Major Problems in African American History, 2nd edition. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2018, linked in previous page of module.
Write a one-to-two page paper (around 500 words) answering the following questions in the form of an essay:
How did Africans enslaved in America create a hybrid Black American artistic and musical culture?
How did these Africans use European artistic and musical traditions as well as African ones?
Be as specific as you can and use the sources from the reading.
How did Africans enslaved in America create a hybrid Black American artistic and musical culture?
