Hey, Leadfingers, I'm not the correct police here-political or otherwise. I just wanted to pass on some information and correct an assumption that I think others-including me-had believed {that shanties were only sung by White sailors. That's the impression given in the Alex Haley Roots tv series.

Fwiw, my comment to your last post is that perhaps when enslaved Africans heard White sailors sing shanties some of them were influenced by this and later composed shanties. But who influenced the White singers in the first place? Perhaps it was some Black sailors...

And perhaps these enslaved Africans also may have created shanties because they remembered & passed on the African tradition of singing songs while they worked-to help coordinate movements, for the aesthtic pleasure of doing so, etc. etc. etc.