http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/appalach.htm

Re: this excerpt "The slaves brought a distinct tradition of group singing of community songs of work and worship, usually lined out by one person with a call and response action from a group. A joyous celebration of life and free sexuality was coupled with improvisation as lyrics were constantly updated and changed to keep up the groups' interest"

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I'm really don't like that second line..."free sexuality??!!"- what??!!!

Okay. Maybe the author meant that Africans didn't have repressed Puritanical attitudes about their bodies and about sex. But given the fact that many enslaved people were forced to have sex to increase and multiple [more babies died than lived and new slaves meant more money; plus there was little enslaved people could do to protect their women from masters or other White men who wanted them as sex partners] It seems to me that this author should have come up with a better way of phrasing what she was trying to say.

That criticism aside, I think it's a good article.

Thanks for finding it, Peace.