Slave Society

            The slave community created their own community by the way the blacks formed their new culture.  This was not due to the fact that they were slaves but because it was an event of being humans though they lived in an unfriendly location. The white slaves had their personal plantations, way of living and other traditions that were alien to the other earliest slaves.  On the basis of the southern plantation and the slaves, they had their own culture but their main problem was the culture. This was because culture according to them was something that seemed indefinable and something that was planned (Blassingame, 213). 

            The main features of the enslaved community on the southern plantation were that their master sanctioned the group activities including songs during work and Christmas celebrations. The other feature was that there was the favor of the networks and the secret meeting of the master as they took food to the runaways cave and also sent emails through the grapevine telegraph.  This feature also exposed people to slip away at night in order to attend the slave dance on other plantations (Blassingame, 412). 

            For one to understand the slave society in the southern plantation, it was important to note that there was a controlled class of people.  There were a lot of planters who also owned many slaves and they were the topmost in the social scale of the controlled movements. The reason as to why the slavery life in the south was different was because the North has a temperate climate in which anyone could safely work while the South had more heat and became so intense which made the white slaves working conditions hard (Greene, 17).      

            According to the slaves’ experience, the enslaved blacks got the freedom to education, arts and had customary through the legal restrictions which happened during the colonial and the antebellum era. Race and religion was the main focus on the slaves communities and the wanted to adapt Christianity. Advisory churches where the slaves could only reveal their humanity but also carved their own space.  Despite all the forces that the slaves went through, they made a rich tradition of music that had a great outcome on the growth of the American music.  Black communities in both the North and the South American cities had their music played in which their ragtime descended later (Greene, 26).  In order to sustain my identity in the new land, I would also practice the songs that would b known in the whole world. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work cited

Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Print. Retrieved from: http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/372/slavery-and-religion-in-the-antebellum-south?ab=X63-3&utm_expid=22625156-

Greene, Meg. Slave Young, Slave Long: The American Slave Experience. Minneapolis, Minn: Lerner Publications Co, 1998. Print. Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/history.html