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  2. Four Hundred Souls - Wikipedia

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    From 1841 to 2019, the vast majority of books telling a history of African America were written by individuals, also almost always male. [1] As the 400th anniversary of Black Africans' arrival in British North America approached, Ibram X. Kendi contemplated how to commemorate the "symbolic birthday of Black America" and the whole 400-year period.

  3. Slave Songs of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slave Songs of the United States, title page Michael Row the Boat Ashore Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential, [1] [2] collection of spirituals to be published.

  4. Roll, Jordan, Roll - Wikipedia

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    The tune known as "Roll, Jordan, Roll" may have its origins in the hymn "There is a Land of Pure Delight" written by Isaac Watts [1] in the 18th century. It was introduced to the United States by the early 19th century, in states such as Kentucky and Virginia, as part of the Second Great Awakening, and often sung at camp meetings.

  5. First Africans in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Several commemorations of this event took place on its 400th anniversary in August 2019, including the starting of The 1619 Project (not associated with Project 1619, Inc.) with a publication by Nikole Hannah-Jones commemorating this event and the Year of Return, Ghana 2019 to encourage the African diaspora to settle in and invest in Africa.

  6. African-American music - Wikipedia

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    In West Africa, drums are used for communication, celebration, and spiritual ceremonies. West African people enslaved in the United States continued to make drums to send coded messages to other slaves across plantations. The making and use of drums by enslaved Africans was outlawed after the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina in 1739. [24]

  7. Music and Black liberation - Wikipedia

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    The slave trade involved the capture and enslavement of free African peoples of which a majority were brought to the Americas. [2] As the descendants of an enslaved population, music provided African Americans with an opportunity to experience the idea of freedom before it became a reality with the passing of the 14th Amendment in 1868. [3]

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  9. Black Gospel music - Wikipedia

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    Black gospel music, often called gospel music or gospel, is the traditional music of the Black diaspora in the United States.It is rooted in the conversion of enslaved Africans to Christianity, both during and after the trans-atlantic slave trade, starting with work songs sung in the fields and, later, with religious songs sung in various church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals ...