In this episode we look at how African music transcended the Atlantic slave trade and how elements of the African roots of music became infused into the antebellum slave plantations through Black Spirituals, Gospels, slave work songs, and blues becoming the foundation of Black music in America today.
In this live stream, we explore the contradictions between the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, and Black freedom. While white revolutionaries fought for freedom from British rule in 1776, Blacks in revolutionary America had their own aspirations for freedom.
The history of slavery and sectional debate impacted the formation of California in a variety of ways. California’s admission into the Union and the Compromise of 1850 intensified the sectional conflict over slavery bringing the United States one step closer to Civil War. The hidden history of the slavery debate in the mid-19th century becomes visible in the very placement of California’s eastern border. Additionally, California becomes a central point in Black history as African Americans struggled to keep slavery out of California…and Black people in it.
Support African Elements via Patreon @ patreon.com/africanelements; In this video we look at some of the conflicting elements of Black Nationalism in the struggle for black liberation and self-determination
Support African Elements via Patreon @ patreon.com/africanelements. This video explores the various often conflicting elements of Black Nationalism in the struggle for black liberation and self-determination, and specifically at Maulana Karenga and his notion of cultural nationalism within the US organization.
Support African Elements via Patreon; patreon.com/africanelements. In this video we’re going to examine the notion of “freedom,” and why it’s been such an elusive thing for black folks to obtain.
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